“My Dreams Of The Heart” and “Going Home to Play”
2 poems to encourage you to celebrate and find your own joy in the struggles and opportunities of daily life
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THE DAWNING LIGHT # 1001– Daily Journal of Uplifting Writing
JOURNEY OF THE HEART Section # 593 poetry and love songs by Chinmayan to encourage you to open your heart to all of the goodness, beauty and Love that is here for you…
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MY DREAMS OF THE HEART
“When you begin to love, respect and appreciate
Yourself, you also begin to know who and what
You really are and cease being concerned about
Anyone else’s opinion or beliefs about you—
For loving your own self is the power
And the pathway to personal freedom.”
—Yeshe Gyamtso
Waiting at the counter
For the bank
To decide on a loan,
I sweat with
Nervousness in every part
Of my body,
As if somehow
I do not deserve the
Help that I seek.
Like a little boy
In a candy store,
I look at the
Cases of dreams
I need this money for,
Ready to have
And not have,
To receive
Or not receive,
To leave with
Or without.
Whatever their choice,
I will retain
The freedom
And confidence
Of knowing
I do already have
Within whatever it is
I truly need.
November 10, 1986
Still Mountain Retreat—First Gate Road
GOING HOME TO PLAY
We sit through hours in cool winter shade
Behind our street artist’s rainbow display,
While crowds of restless strangers go
Quietly by on their wandering way.
Finally, with the going of the meager sun
Comes the end of our long and wearying day--
But still the silent crowds go on going by
While we three gratefully go home to play.
November 8, 1986
--On Beach Street, Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, California
With my happy and delightful 5-year-old twin daughters
“If we are blessed to be the parents of young children, we have been given the most wonderful of all opportunities to learn how to purely Love and care for them, to learn how to see the world with wonder and innocence again and to relive our own childhoods and become the father and mother to our own inner child that we have always wanted and needed to have.”
—Yeshe Gyamtso
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
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