Quote from The Music Shop – Rachel Joyce
“The way to heaven is not through the clouds. It’s in the joy with which you look at the world despite your pain and sorrow.”
Cottleston Pie – A.A. Milne
https://www.thecottlestonpie.com/whythecottlestonpie
The Cure – Albert Huffstickler https://intrinsicheart.com/the-cure/
For Warmth – Thich Nhat Hanh
https://plumvillage.org/articles/for-warmth-thays-poem-in-my-two-hands-betsy-roses-song/
On Visible Light – Donna Kane
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/poem-on-visible-light/
Don’t Go Back to Sleep – Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
https://www.poetryverse.com/rumi-poems/dont-go-to-sleep
Desire – Alice Walker https://alicewalkersgarden.com/2011/02/desire/
Quietness – Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
https://adamastramusic.blog/2012/02/16/quietness-rumi/
The Altar of the Moment – Dorothy Hunt
https://www.dorothyhunt.org/the-altar-of-this-moment
Constant Conversation – Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
http://rumidays.blogspot.com/2010/05/constant-conversation.html
A Dark Wine So Potent – Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
https://jamieleegreene.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/the-many-wines/
(This poem is also in the Take-Home Poetry Pack from August 2021, https://intrinsicheart.com/spiritual-poetry-take-home-packs/ )
Quote from “Are You Mr. William Stafford?” – William Stafford
“‘You don’t have to prove anything,’ my mother said. ‘Just be ready for what God sends.’
I listened and put my hand out in the sun again. It was all easy.”
You can read the complete poem at: https://theuncarvedblog.com/2015/11/21/william-staffords-last-poem-now-seemed-prophetic-an-unintended-literary-epitaph/
Sonnet to Orpheus, III, 1 – Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Mark Burrows)
http://www.msburrows.com/sonnets-to-orpheus-i-3/2012/2/7/sonnets-to-orpheus-i-3.html
