All that is necessary
To make this world a better place
To live is to love as
Christ loves, as Buddha loved.
To make this world a better place
To live is to love as
Christ loves, as Buddha loved.
~ Isadora Duncan
At a conference on the Iranian poet Hafez I attended recently, one of the older Persian speakers suddenly leaned forward to the audience and said, "Make your work The Face of the Beloved, and let what you create be her lashes, her mole, her lips." To do that would mean carrying all these gifts, letting the radiance of the World beyond the world shine into each cottage door you come to. Doing so requires both huge strength and the capacity for a kind of visible luminosity, an active principle that can only be born from a great stillness.