“LOVING MYSELF IS MY PATH TO FREEDOM” and “LEARNING TO LOVE, SERVE AND AWAKEN” plus new Rumi poem about true Love
TRANSFORMATIONAL POETRY For The SOUL by Chinmayan
THE DAWNING LIGHT, Volume 7, # 724 Sunday, January 21, 2024
JOURNEY OF THE HEART Section # 445 Poetry and Love Songs by Chinmayan to inspire you to open your heart to greater love and joy
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LOVING MYSELF is MY PATH TO FREEDOM Gratitude For The One Who Lives Inside This Body As I slow myself to silent stillness And enter the sacred space Of my nightly prayer time, After so many hours of working And doing what must be done To make our living… I am suddenly filled with Deep gratitude for the one Who lives inside this body, Who is ever striving to fully Awaken so that I may become the One I was sent here to be— I am grateful to this one who Is always seeking to heal and Purify myself of everything That is not real radiant love, I am grateful to myself for being One who is dedicated to applying the Lessons of truth and consciousness Learned from the raw experiences of life— I bow to myself in respectful Appreciation for being one who has And will always be doing the inner Work of walking my own spiritual path, While living lovingly, day by day, in This pain filled and beautiful world. May 8, 2012 Still Mountain
TO LOVE, SERVE and AWAKEN
I know this body will die someday,
But my greatest fear is not of
Dying, but of the possibility
That I may fail to fully live
While I am still here,
May fail to open my heart in a
Symphony of loving that expresses
The Divine from within me
While I still reside in this body
Which was made for lovingly
Serving this hurting world
Through the full use of my
Own innate talents and abilities,
Which I have always known
Were given to me by God so that
I can Love, serve and awaken
All those who just need a little
Help to find their way home again.
May 28, 2012
LOVERS ARE IN EACH OTHER ALL ALONG
A New Translation of Rumi by Chinmayan
Original Calligraphy and Translation By Chinmayan
Lovers Are In Each Other All Along
What you seek
With all your heart
Is seeking you.
Your task is not
To seek for love,
But to seek
And find all the barriers
Within yourself that
You have built
Against it.
Lovers don’t finally
Meet somewhere—
They are in
Each other
All along.
—Rumi Translation by ChinmayanA BEAUTIFUL and PROFOUND NEW SONG from Mumford and Son
All about calling on all the “Good People” on the planet to awaken and rising up to help save the world….THE TIME IS NOW!!!!!
Complete with lyrics! This is one of the greatest and most uplifting songs this group has ever recorded!
“Good People” by Mumford and Sons with complete lyrics
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