Inspired pathways

flat,550x550,075,fYou were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Absorbed in this world, you’ve made it your burden.
Rise above this world.
There is another vision.
All your life you’ve paid attention to your experiences,
but never to your Self.
Are you searching for your Soul?
Then come out of your prison.

Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
It will not lead you to astray.

Let the beauty you seek be what you do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Question the scholars and philosophers, but God is beyond their understanding.
Then look in your Heart and it was there where God dwells that you will see;
God is nowhere else to be found.
Everything in the Universe is within You.

There is a link between matter and Spirit.
And your heart is looking for that path.
Consciousness is clear and pure like water.
And pure water is a perfect mirror for moonlight.

-Rumi

On a summer morning
I sat down
on a hillside
to think about God –

a worthy pastime.
Near me, I saw
a single cricket;
it was moving the grains of the hillside

this way and that way.
How great was its energy,
how humble its effort.
Let us hope

it will always be like this,
each of us going on
in our inexplicable ways
building the universe.
coastal daisy by earth gypsy

from Why I Wake Early (2004) Mary Oliver

Posted by | Paul Reynolds

“Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system…..” - Rumi

For over 30 years Paul Reynolds has collected and shared inspiration from a wide variety of sources. Embracing the philosophy that at the core of all these expressions is the reminder that we are loved and supported every moment. This unending stream of inspiration, imagination and wisdom is posted via his weekly ‘Living the Question Blog’, which has become ‘home’ for those discoveries. If you would like to receive the readings and share them with those you feel will benefit, please fill out the ‘Subscribe’ form to the right and Paul’s selections will come to your email every Friday.

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