Who Says Words with My Mouth – Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
https://intrinsicheart.com/who-says-words-with-my-mouth/
Old Man Passing Through a Doorway – Albert Huffstickler
https://intrinsicheart.com/passing-through-a-doorway/
When Love Has Been Withheld – David Whyte
[I could not find this poem online]
Quote from Thomas Merton -“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”
Sweet Darkness – Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Robert Bly)
https://onbeing.org/poetry/sweet-darkness/
You Darkness That I Come From – Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Robert Bly)
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2025/08/01/you-darkness-that-i-come-from-by-rainer-maria-rilke/
Solar Storm – Alfred LaMotte
https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/six-poems-by-alfred-k-lamotte (scroll down to the second poem on the page)
Blessing for Unrequited Love, aka A Blessing on the Eyes That Do Not See Me as I Wish – David Whyte
https://voetica.com/poem/15326
Photo: Depiction of the Sun’s magnetic fields is overlaid on an image of the Sun captured in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 12, 2016. Courtesy of https://science.nasa.gov/sun/solar-storms-and-flares/
