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MajestyJo
Average Member
Canada
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 Posted - 11/04/2007 : 03:44:33
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A Lake of Beauty
Let your mind be quiet, revealing the beauty of the world, and the immense and boundless treasures that it holds in store.
All that you have within you, all that your heart desires, all that your nature so specially fits you for - that or the counterpart of it waits embedded in the great whole for you: Surely it will come.
Yet, equally surely, not one moment before its appointed time will it come. All the crying and fever and the reaching out of hands will make no difference. Therefore, do not begin this game at all.
Do not recklessly spill the waters of your mind in this direction and in that, lest you become like a spring, lost and dissipated in the desert.
But draw them together into a little compass, and hold them so still....so still;
let them become so clear, so limpid, so miror-like, and last, the mountains and sky shall glass themselves in peaceful beauty, the antelope shall descend to drink and to gaze at his reflected image, and the lion to quench his thirst, and
Love, himself, shall come and bend over and catch his own likeness in you.
Edward Carpenter,
English Poet & Author
1844 - 1929
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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A Lake of Beauty
