Guest guest Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 To See As God Sees It is your destiny to see as God sees to know as God knows, to feel as God feels. How is this possible? How? Because divine love cannot defy its very self. Divine love will be eternally true to its own being and its being is giving all it can, at the perfect moment. And the greatest gift God can give is His own experience. Every object, every creature, every man, woman and child has a soul and it is the destiny of all, to see as God sees, to know as God knows, to feel as God feels, to Be as God Is. ~~~ Meister Eckhart Page 120, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass. ******************************************************** On Behalf of Love Every truth without exception—no matter who makes it---is from God. If a bird got accused of singing too early in the morning, if a lute began to magically play on its own in the square and the enchanting sounds it made drove a pair of young lovers into a wild, public display of passion, if this lute and bird then got called before the inquisition and their lives were literally at stake, could not God walk up and say before the court, “All acts of beauty are mine; all happen on the behalf of love”? And while God was there, testifying for our heart’s desires, hopefully the judge would be astute enough to brave a question, that could go, “Dear God, you say all acts of beauty are yours; surely we can believe that. But what of all actions we see in this world, for is there any force in existence greater than the power of your omnipresent hand?” And God might have responded, “I like that question,” adding, “May I ask you one as well?” And then God would say, “Have you ever been in a conversation when children entered the room, and you then ceased speaking because your wisdom knew that they were not old enough to benefit---to understand? As exquisite is your world, most everyone in it is spiritually young. Spirituality is love, and love never wars with the minute, the day, one self and others. Love would rather die than maim a limb, a wing. Dear, anything that divides man from man, earth from sky, light from dark, one religion from another…. O, I best keep silent, I see a child just entered the room.” ~~~ St Thomas Aquinas Page 123-124, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass. ************************************************ I Am What Is Loved I said to God “What are you?” And He replied, I Am what is loved. I am not what should be loved for how cruel that would then be for my bride.” ~~~ St John Of The Cross Page 304, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Thank you for sharing these Stacee. I felt like Amma was speaking through these poems to me. Stacee Kramer <stacee.kramer wrote: To See As God Sees It is your destiny to see as God sees to know as God knows, to feel as God feels. How is this possible? How? Because divine love cannot defy its very self. Divine love will be eternally true to its own being and its being is giving all it can, at the perfect moment. And the greatest gift God can give is His own experience. Every object, every creature, every man, woman and child has a soul and it is the destiny of all, to see as God sees, to know as God knows, to feel as God feels, to Be as God Is. ~~~ Meister Eckhart Page 120, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass. ******************************************************** On Behalf of Love Every truth without exception—no matter who makes it---is from God. If a bird got accused of singing too early in the morning, if a lute began to magically play on its own in the square and the enchanting sounds it made drove a pair of young lovers into a wild, public display of passion, if this lute and bird then got called before the inquisition and their lives were literally at stake, could not God walk up and say before the court, “All acts of beauty are mine; all happen on the behalf of love”? And while God was there, testifying for our heart’s desires, hopefully the judge would be astute enough to brave a question, that could go, “Dear God, you say all acts of beauty are yours; surely we can believe that. But what of all actions we see in this world, for is there any force in existence greater than the power of your omnipresent hand?” And God might have responded, “I like that question,” adding, “May I ask you one as well?” And then God would say, “Have you ever been in a conversation when children entered the room, and you then ceased speaking because your wisdom knew that they were not old enough to benefit---to understand? As exquisite is your world, most everyone in it is spiritually young. Spirituality is love, and love never wars with the minute, the day, one self and others. Love would rather die than maim a limb, a wing. Dear, anything that divides man from man, earth from sky, light from dark, one religion from another…. O, I best keep silent, I see a child just entered the room.” ~~~ St Thomas Aquinas Page 123-124, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass. ************************************************ I Am What Is Loved I said to God “What are you?” And He replied, I Am what is loved. I am not what should be loved for how cruel that would then be for my bride.” ~~~ St John Of The Cross Page 304, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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