Joseph Campbell Quote – “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ― Joseph Campbell
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/20105.Joseph_Campbell
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717-be-patient-toward-all-that-is-unsolved-in-your-heart
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quote from The Little Prince – “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1256288-it-is-only-with-the-heart-that-one-can-see
You, Darkness – Rainer Maria Rilke (Version by Devora Green) Devora’s translated version is not available online. Here are links to a couple of other translations:
https://awabisabilife.ca/2022/02/04/darkness/ translation by David Whyte
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=102752 original German and Robert Bly’s translation
To Know the Dark – Wendell Berry
https://fourteenlines.blog/2022/12/17/to-know-the-dark-go-dark/
Sabbaths 1999, VI – Wendell Berry
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9931004-we-travelers-walking-to-the-sun-can-t-see-ahead-but
Under Ideal Conditions – Al Zolynas
https://dharmatown.org/someplace-between-the-17th-and-18th-mile/
Soothing the Sorrow – Sohrab Sepehri (translated by Dan Khani)
Dan’s translation is not available online – you can find many Sohrab Sepehri poems translated online, here are a few links: https://www.sohrabsepehri.com/poems.asp?status=showpoem&language=e&poemid=99
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1775944 (scroll down for poem)
https://alisalami.com/2023/01/sohrab-sepehri-selected-poems-english/
The Thing Is – Ellen Bass
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/151844/the-thing-is
School Prayer – Diane Ackerman
https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=91
In Memoriam A. H. H. (Prologue) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-h-h
Aeschylus Quote – “He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/aeschylus_148591
The Risk of Birth, Christmas, 1973 – Madeleine L’Engle
https://www.madeleinelengle.com/the-gift-of-a-christmas-poem-plus-news-about-the-re-release-of-ordering-of-love/
Who Am I? – Jallaluddin Rumi (translated by Dan Khani)
Dan’s translation is not available online. Here are a couple of links to other translations.
https://www.stillnessspeaks.com/rumi_who_am_i_poem/
https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/R/RumiMevlanaJ/OnlyBreath/index.html
https://rumiwithaview.com/the-source/
Another Unity – Jalaluddin Rumi
https://intrinsicheart.com/another-unity/
Art by Christi Belcourt “Honour Water,” 2010
https://christibelcourt.ca/pages/about
