There Is No Word for Goodbye – Mary TallMountain
https://blog.stabenow.com/2015/11/27/poem-for-the-month/
Quote from Lahiri Mahasaya: “Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that someday you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world — so make the acquaintanceship of God now.”
Our World, Our Time – Patricia Telesco
Desiderata – Max Ehrmann
https://allpoetry.com/desiderata—words-for-life
After Reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead – Lucia Perillo
(To read this poem excerpted from Google Books, click here)
The Dark Night (excerpt) – St. John of the Cross (translated by Robert Bly)
https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2010/11/dark-night.html
(The reading was of the first, second and last stanza)
The Search – Farhad
Be Ahead of All Parting – Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2011/03/be-ahead-of-all-parting.html
Letter from Birmingham Jail (excerpt) – Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf
(The reading was Page 4, Paragraph 4.)
Art by William Sommer, Abstraction with Hand, Art Institute of Chicago, c. 1934