All Blog Posts Tagged 'joy' (33)

joy is feeling

looking upwards

skies enrapture

the sorry self

and its grievance

joy is seeing

looking westwards

social fracture

healing itself

from insurgence

joy is knowing

looking eastwards

proper culture

relieves oneself

from ignorance

joy is seeing

looking outwards

events mature

the early self

from…

joy is knowing

the best of views

fuels volition

to climb the mount

joy is having

freedom to choose

which obstruction

one must surmount

joy is knowing

hearing the muse

is like drinking

from the youth fount

joy is having

nothing to lose

and yet having

blessings to…

when gloominess

deflects the gale

joy is the wind

that fills the sail

when despair is

tricking the scale

joy is the clue

that tells the tale

when spleen is thick

and hopes are pale

joy is meaning

that lifts the veil

when no reason

can find the trail

joy is compass

towards the…

though worries hurt

and fears injure

joy yields healing

beyond measure

though gloom has roots

deep in culture

joy at all times

sages nurture

though the reasons

may outnumber

joy is the wealth

wise ones treasure

though the mundane

exerts pressure

joy is accord

with one's…

when the constraints

the spirit faze

joy is a door

out of the maze

when nobody

offers their praise

joy is moving

on anyways

when challenges

the psyche daze

joy is clear sky

after the haze

when upheavals

disrupt the ways

joy is respite

on heavy…

when there is fault

at the crossroad

joy is knowing

the cosmic goad

when the ciphers

the wit erode

joy is insight

breaking the code

when through hard work

seeds have been sowed

joy is seeing

blessings bestowed

when there's burden

and a long road

joy is a friend

halving the…

joy is being given
the secret of silence
after the hard lesson
and the heavy penance

joy is being driven
to relay radiance
and this way forgiven
for past indifference

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(« Yamagata University Craft-Pal 2006 » by simo100)

By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditation is the journey from movement to stillness, from sound to silence. The need is present in you to meditate because it is your natural tendency to look for undiminished joy and love that doesn’t distort or turn negative.

Is meditation alien to us? That’s not true because you have been in meditation even before…

Happy New Year



Like the dew drops in the early morning grass,

Fresh and clear as pearls in the rays of sunshine,

Like the blossoming of magnolia in the early spring,

Gracefully clad in white as a beautiful bride,

Like the eastern sky in the early dawn,

Magnificently bright with the glow of the rising Sun,

Like the spark on her face…

When the day seeks to rest,

It pleads the Sun to set,

When the workers wipe the sweaty forehead,

The cool air breezes from the distant ahead,

When the crops sink to soak the soil,

The farmers lay their tools to rest,

When the babies sing the evening chirps,

The mother birds return to their nests,

When the lovers long for the solitude,

The dusk invites with its twilight fade,

When my heart…