Eagle Poem – Joy Harjo
https://intrinsicheart.com/eagle-poem/
Aeneid, Book VI, lines 970-992 (Starting with “Long has my Soul desir’d this time, and place,” and ending with “Blunt not the beams of heav’n and edge of day.”
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Virgil_(Dryden)/Aeneid/Book_VI
Chaos Ripples – Sharona Latoue
https://www.pammcdowellsaylor.com/2015/05/ (scroll to next-to-last entry on the page)
On Religion – Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet
https://poets.org/poem/religion
“I looked in temples, churches, and mosques…” – Jalaluddin Rumi
Various versions of this reading from Rumi are online, but I could not find the exact reading. It starts “I looked in temples, churches and mosques,” and ends “I looked into my own heart, and there in my heart was the Beloved to be found.”
The Valley Spirit, from The Tao, Chapter 6 – Lao Tze, translated by Stuart Alve Olson
There are a number of translations online.
For the Road to Santiago – David Whyte
https://davidwhyte.substack.com/p/for-the-road-to-santiago
Joy Meets Joy – Meister Eckhart, as rendered from Meister Eckhart’s works in Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul, by Jon M. Sweeney and Mark S. Burrows
https://melbreakcommunities.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/link-mar-ev2023.pdf
Love After Love – Derek Walcott
https://poems.com/poem/love-after-love/
Photo by Ed Johnson, Key Peninsula News, “Eagles and the Genius of Bird Flight”
