The House
...She lays her beams in music,
In music every ore,
To the candence of the whirling world
Which dances round the sun-
That so they shall not be displaced
By lapses or by wars,
But for the love of happy souls
Out live the newest stars.
If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all
the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy
when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, “My flower’s up there
somewhere. . . .” But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it’s
as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn’t important?
If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all
the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy
when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, “My flower’s up there
somewhere. . . .” But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it’s
as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn’t important?
If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, “My flower’s up there somewhere. . . .” But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it’s as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn’t important?
In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; -- The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls. Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: Intellect-- from Essays: First Series (1841)
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
God is like the stars, he's always there. On the brightest day He's there, although because of the Sun we may forget about Him, but then on the blackest Night we will see that He's still there
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Life begins with the process of star formation. We are made of stardust - and so is all life as we know it, and therefore children of stars. All the chemical elements on earth except hydrogen - including the ones in our bodies - have been processed inside stars, scattered across the universe in great stellar explosions, and recycled to become new stars, planets, and parts of us. Elements are "cooked" by nuclear fusion inside stars. Supernovae are great stellar explosions in which the resulting ash is spread far and wide through the cosmos, forming new generation of stars, planets, and people.
... here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart(i carry it in my heart).
Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars -
and goes yet beyond that -
beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us -
Grandfather Space.
The Mind is his Wife
Stars light the way to the impossible, but when they fade, they reveal the possible.
And what You are is the great Unborn, timeless and eternal, in its 1st-person perspective as the great I-I, the great Self, the Witness of this page, and this room, and this universe, and everything in it, witnessing it ALL with a passionate equanimity that leaves you alone as the Unmoved Mover. You are likewise the great Unborn, timeless and eternal, in its 2nd-person perspective as the Great Thou, the Great Other, before whom you bow in an infinite act of complete release and savage surrender and ecstatic submission, and receive in return the entire Kosmos as your blessing and your forgiveness and your eternal grace. You are likewise the great Unborn, timeless and eternal in its 3rd-person perspective as the Great Perfection, the Holy Spirit, the Great web of Life in all its infinite perfection and dynamic chaos, its pulsating pulsars and exploding nebulae, its stars and galaxies and planets and oceans, through which runs the common blood and bears the single heart of an Eros seeking its own higher wholeness, and always finding it, and seeking yet again, and always finding it yet once more, because You always know that You are here, don't You? And so in fun and sport and play and delight, and remorse and terror and agony and respite, You throw yourself out to start to play all over again, in this, the deepest part of You that gives birth to galaxies within Your heart, lets the stars light up as the neurons in Your brain, sing songs of love and delight to the submission and surrender of Your own good night, and all of this within the space that is You, the space that You feel as Your own I-I, or this ever-present Witness of the forms of Your own play.
And in the great I-I, as You witness the Forms of Your own play as the entire Kosmos - in that very moment, which is this timeless Now, a Now that has no beginning and no end, there is simultaneously Spirit in its 1-st person and 2nd=person and 3rd-person forms, the Great I and We and It feel each other, and in that unitary seamless sizzling Now, which is this very moment before you do anything at all, it is, quite simply over.
Which means, it has, quite simply, begun.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.
