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How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love […]
Daddy BY SYLVIA PLATH
You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time—— Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one […]
I want to see you By Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207 – 1273 / Persia)
I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come ‘round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you’ve just left. Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the […]
If Wishes Were Candy by Philip Goldberg
A young woman, having just celebrated her 20th birthday, graced the glossy black and white snapshot; its edges curled slightly. Adorned in a one-piece bathing suit, the young woman excited the eyes. Posed on the beach, sand at her feet, she appeared joyful, confident.The photo felt slick between her bony fingers as she gazed at […]
Bored to Death By Paulo Coelho
As soon as he died, Juan found himself in a very beautiful place, surrounded by all the comfort and beauty that he had dreamed of. A figure dressed in white came up to him: “You are entitled to anything you want.” Enchanted, Juan did everything he had dreamed of during life. After many years of […]
Do You Feel Useful?
Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’ And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’ Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in […]
A Moment of Happiness by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207 – 1273 / Persia)
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden’s beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be […]
Uncertainty is not the same thing as risk
By Seth Godin (He blogs at – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/) Often, the most important work we do doesn’t bring a guaranteed, specific result. Usually, the result of any given action on our part is unknown. Uncertainty implies a range of possible outcomes. But a range of results, all uncertain, does not mean you are exposing yourself to […]
Will’s experience at the airport:
After his return from Rome, Will couldn’t find his luggage in the airport baggage area. He went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that his bags hadn’t shown up on the carousel.She smiled and told him not to worry because they were trained professionals and he was in good hands. Then […]
The Scientific Union
You sugarcoat my bitchiness You compliment my completeness We are the perfect combination Of stress and relaxation We could fuse effortlessly Sans any biotechnology Our union needs no Kraft temperature Neither a minimum CMconcentration Never gonna let eddy currents near Cuz I am great lamination for your core Hold on to maintain exponential growth Lest […]
Shake off your problems
A man’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice; He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries; He therefore decides to bury it alive. Soil is poured onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and steps on it; More soil is poured. It shakes it off […]
“The Judges” by Pablo Neruda
Your blood asks, how were the wealthy and the law interwoven? With what sulfurous iron fabric? How did the poor keep falling into the tribunals? How did the land become so bitter for poor children, harshly nourished on stone and grief? So it was, and so I leave it written. Their lives wrote it on […]
Sonnet 29:When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
William Shakespeare When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man’s art and […]
Everyone has a Story in Life
A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted… “Dad, look the trees are going behind!” Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed… “Dad, look the clouds are running with us!” The couple couldn’t resist and said […]
On Friendship by Khalil Gibran
And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.” Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his […]
Love in the Asylum-Dylan Thomas
A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume. Strait in the mazed bed She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room, At large […]
Arrogance is normally a banal mask of cowardice by Paulo Coelho
Epictietus (AD 55 – AD 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave in Greece, lived in Rome and was expelled and exiled to his homeland where he lived for most of his life. During his exile, he created a way of teaching his disciples. Below, an excerpt of his book Discourses: […]
She dwelt among the untrodden ways By – William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! —Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy […]
An excerpt from Khaled Hosseini’s, ‘The Kite Runner’
During one reading session under their favorite pomegranate tree, Amir begins to make up his own story while he is reading to Hassan. Hassan says it is one of the best stories Amir has read. That night, Amir writes his first short story, about a man whose tears turn to pearls. The man finds new […]
Sonnet XVII By Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light […]