LOVE SONG

LOVE SONG

Thy face is like a moon that shines on earth,

Like a thick night thy clustering tresses be;

Apples of paradise thy temples are,

And thy deep eyes were lent thee by the sea.

Thou hast arched brows and dark, dark eyes, my love;

Peerless art thou among earth's countless girls.

Thine eyelashes are arrows to my heart;

Thy mouth is a moist tulip, full of pearls.

NAHABED KOUTCHAK

He was an Armenian poet, who lived in the latter part of the 15th century.

Although he wrote only love songs, he is revered as a saint, and his grave near Van is a place of pilgrimage.

The real sick

Who is the sick?

Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what he is suffering from.

The doctor says, "Very well, I've understood your symptoms.

Do you know what I will do?

I will prescribe a medicine for your neighbor!"

The patient replies, "Thank you very much, doctor, that makes me feel much better."



Isn't that absurd?

But that's what we all do.

Awareness

Anthony de Mello

Transformation

The sheep-lion

There's a famous story about the lion who came upon a flock of sheep and to his amazement found a lion among the sheep.

It was a lion who had been brought up by the sheep ever since he was a cub.

It would bleat like a sheep and run around like a sheep.

The lion went straight for him, and when the sheep lion stood in front of the real one, he trembled in every limb.

And the lion said to him, "What are you doing among the sheep?"

And the sheep-lion said, "I am a sheep."

And the lion said, "Oh no, you're not.

You're coming with me."

So he took the sheep-lion to a pool and said, "Look!"

And when the sheep-lion looked at his reflection in the water, he let out a mighty roar, and in that moment he was transformed.

He was never the same again.

Awareness

Anthony de Mello