
By Lamplight: Poetry to Ignite Your Inner Light
“Go, hart, unto the lamp of licht.
Go, hart, do service and honour,
Go, hart, and serve Him day and nicht:
Go, hart, unto thy Saviour.”
“Go, hart, unto the lamp of licht.
Go, hart, do service and honour,
Go, hart, and serve Him day and nicht:
Go, hart, unto thy Saviour.”
“To create belongs to God’s goodness; to be created belongs to human nature.”
“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” -Rumi
“And even if what you want to accomplish in the world were the most amazing feat: you shall acknowledge the lily and the bird as your teachers…”
“What I am asking for is really very ridiculous. Oh Lord, I am saying, at present I am cheese, make me a mystic, immediately. But then God can do that – make mystics out of cheeses.”
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”
“Every day, God gives us the sun – and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.”