October 2024 Readings

Table – Edip Cansever     https://intrinsicheart.com/table/

Reverse Living – Norman Glass   https://uuwestport.org/reverse-living/

Why Are You Unhappy? – Wei Wu Wei
https://www.michaeldpollock.com/wei-wu-wei-on-why-your-are-unhappy/

Psalm 144 – Psalm of King David
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20144&version=NKJV

Quote from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov:
“The world is a narrow bridge—the important thing is not to make yourself afraid.”

Do Not Sink Into Sadness (Building Your Ship) – Hafez
https://intrinsicheart.com/building-your-ship/

My Sweet Old Etcetera – E.E. Cummings*
https://allpoetry.com/my-sweet-old-etcetera

Nobody But Yourself – E.E. Cummings  [excerpt]
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9607928-a-poet-is-somebody-who-feels-and-who-expresses-his

Poem – E.E. Cummings
https://intrinsicheart.com/what-time-is-it-it-is-by-every-star/
(The bottom of this page also contains the “Nobody But Yourself” excerpt that was read above)

Poem – Mary Oliver [scroll down the linked page to find the poem]
https://intrinsicheart.com/the-embodied-life-the-spirit-likes-to-dress-up/

My Courageous Life – David Whyte
https://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2021/04/david-whyte-my-courageous-life.html

Photo: Globular Cluster NGC 6380; Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola              
* A note on E.E. Cummings and capitalization: The practice of writing this poet’s name
in lower case was due to a decision by his publishers, not by E.E. Cummings.