Whether
we and our politicians
know it or not, Nature is party
to all our deals and decisions, and she
has more votes, a longer memory,
and a sterner sense of justice
than we do.
nothing coming, nothing owed
That one is
blessed and at peace who
doesn’t hope, to whom desire makes
no more loans. Nothing coming,
nothing owed.
keep your mind free from hatred and love
You must
avoid letting your mind
dwell upon anything whatsoever,
which implies being unconcerned
with either deeds or
no deeds.
What
I mean is keeping
your mind free from hatred
and love. This means that you must be able
to see attractive things without love for them arising
in your mind and also you must be able to see
repulsive things without hatred for them
arising in your mind. You
must examine this
thoroughly.
rise up
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie
Dust unto dust
The calm earth mothers all who die
As all men must
Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell
Too strong to strive
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell,
Buried alive;
But rather mourn the apathetic throng
The cowed and the meek
Who see earth’s great languish and its wrong
And dare not speak.
pray for knowledge and light
Mentally repeat,
‘Let all beings be happy;
let all beings be peaceful; let all
beings be blissful.’ So do to the east,
south, north and west. The more you do
that the better you will feel yourself. You will
find at last that the easiest way to make ourselves
healthy is to see that others are healthy, and the
easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see
that others are happy. After doing that,
those who believe in God should pray—
not for money, not for health, nor
for heaven; pray for knowledge
and light; every other
prayer is selfish.