The Wayshower

Take Chances...

"Out of the Darkness" - Steve Taylor

 

There are so many ways to feel dissatisfied
so many different needs to meet
so many goals to keep striving for
so many problems to try to fix
so much of the past you wish you could change
so many fears from the future.

No wonder you feel overwhelmed
like a traveller carrying too many bags
with too many paths to choose from
who has to keep stopping to rest
until he can’t go on, and collapses.
How could you ever be happy?
Life’s too demanding and complicated.

But then – an electric shock, an illness or accident
death creeps behind and swipes you hard across your back
awakening you from your torpor
and suddenly the fog dissolves away
And you can see the narrow ledge you’re walking
- the one you’ve always been walking – between life and death.

And now it’s all so simple and makes perfect sense -
life is temporary and fragile, precious beyond value
and life contains nothing except this present moment
this brilliant beautiful river of experience.

And suddenly those needs stop niggling you
the guilt and fear stop gnawing
the phantoms of the past can’t scare you anymore
there’s nothing to worry about or to be afraid of

Everything obliterated
but the glory of this moment
the grandeur of the world itself

And you know that this is all there is
that this is where fulfilment lies
and everything else is only a shadowplay of the mind.

From the book ‘The Meaning’ ~ Author:  Steve Taylor

Quote of the Day... Gift

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing Light of your own Being.

- Hafiz -

Quote of the Day: Opening Up

"We climbed up, until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds... And there we came out to see, once more, the stars."

~ Dante Alighieri 

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"Still I Rise" - Maya Angelou [Video]

Confidence, Courage and Strength... 

Quote of the Day... Confidence

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. 
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size 
But when I start to tell them, 
They think I'm telling lies. 
I say, 
It's in the reach of my arms 
The span of my hips, 
The stride of my step, 
The curl of my lips. 
I'm a woman 
Phenomenally. 
Phenomenal woman, 
That's me. 

― Maya Angelou, 

Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Quote of the Day... Love

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” 

― Maya Angelou

Quote of the Day...

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies. 

~ Emily Dickinson ~

Thought of the Day... 'The Opening of Eyes' by David Whyte

The Opening of Eyes

That day I saw beneath dark clouds
the passing light over the water
and I heard the voice of the world speak out,
I knew then, as I had before
life is no passing memory of what has been
nor the remaining pages in a great book
waiting to be read.

It is the opening of eyes long closed.
It is the vision of far off things
seen for the silence they hold.
It is the heart after years
of secret conversing
speaking out loud in the clear air.

It is Moses in the desert
fallen to his knees before the lit bush.
It is the man throwing away his shoes
as if to enter heaven
and finding himself astonished,
opened at last,
fallen in love with solid ground.

~ David Whyte ~

 

Thought of the Day... Change

 

Beyond

The
Change
Appeared
And left behind
What we had feared
And in this quietness
There is a cloudlessness
That lets us see
Beyond
Our years

~ silent lotus ~