Grace Finds Beauty

Kindness

2011-10-04T10:15:00.000-07:00

But the fruit of the Spirit is love,

joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness,

goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:

against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

~ * ~ The kindly word that falls today may bear its fruit tomorrow. ~ * ~

~ * A good manner springs from a good heart,

and fine manners are the outcome of unselfish kindness. * ~

~*~ Every noble life leaves the fiber of it interwoven in the wool of the world. ~*~

* One whom influences the thought of their time,

influences the thought of all the times that follow.

* Speech may sometimes do harm.,

but so may silence and a worse harm at that.

No insult ever caused so deep a wound

as a tenderness expected and withheld.,

and no spoken indiscretion was ever so bitterly regretted,

as the word that one did not speak.

~*~ Though another may have more money, beauty, brains than you., ~*~

yet when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity,

self sacrifice, honor, nobility or heart, you have an equal chance

with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

* What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

We search the world for truth, we cull..

The good, the true, the beautiful.,

From graven stone and written scroll.,

And all old flower fields of the soul..

And, weary seekers of the best.,

We come back laden from our quest.,

To find that all the sages said..

Is in the Book our mothers read.

Do all the good you can.

By all the means you can.

In all the ways you can.

At all the times you can.

To all the people you can.

As long as ever you can.

* Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty.,

but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

~*~ I have resolved never to do anything ~*~

which I should be afraid to do

if it were the last hour of my life

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.

The real tragedy of life is those who are afraid of the Light.

** Everything has been thought of before..

the difficulty is to think of it again.

* May you live all the days of you're life

For we must share if we would keep.

That blessing from above.,

Ceasing to give, we cease to have,

Such is the law of love.

Let us be the first to give a friendly sign,

to nod first, to smile first, speak first and -

if such a thing is necessary.. forgive first.

Kindness cannot be wasted. It makes no difference

where it is bestowed, it always brings in big returns.

Peace

2011-09-28T08:50:00.001-07:00

If there is righteousness in the heart,

there will be beauty in the character,

If there is beauty in the character,

there will be harmony in the home,

If there is harmony in the home,

there will be order in the nation,

If there is order in the nation,

there will be peace in the world.

~ * ~

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

All the sleepless nights, burdened days, joyless, restless, peace-destroying,

happiness-destroying, love-destroying hours men and women have ever

in all Earth's centuries given to worry, never wrought one good thing!

When you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart,

you live in your lips and sound is a diversion and a pastime.

Peace is not the absence of conflict,

but the ability to cope with it.

The rest of our days depends upon the rest of our nights.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Rest is not quitting the busy career.,

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere,

'Tis loving and serving the highest and best,

'Tis onward unswerving, and that is true rest.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.

Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Much wisdom remains to be learned, and if it is only to be learned through adversity, we much endeavor to endure adversity with what fortitude we can command. But if we can acquire wisdom soon enough, adversity may not be necessary and the future of humanity may be happier than any part of their past.

If you have learned to walk

A little more sure footedly than I,

Be patient with my stumbling then

And know that only as I do my best and try

May I attain the goal

For which we both are striving.

If through experience, your soul

Has gained heights which I

As yet in dim-lit vision see,

Hold out your hand and point the way,

Lest from its straightness I should stray,

And walk a mile with me.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

Women are here to stay..

let's make the best of them. ;)

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages., they have learned to understand all and to be understood by all.

Climb the mountains and get their glad tidings. Nature's peace will flow to you as the sunshine flows into the trees. The winds blow their own freshness into you, and the storms, their energy, while cares drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.

When you're through changing, you're through.

If you don't scale the mountain, you cannot see the view!

It isn't the load that weighs us down -

it's the way we carry it.

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well,

when they cannot be seen from the top of the mountain.

So are many things learned in adversity,

which the prosperous individual dreams not of.

~ * ~

Being gifted means having the gift of Being.

Joy

2011-09-24T21:20:00.001-07:00

There is nothing I can give you which you have not,

but there is much that while I cannot give you,

you can take:

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today.

Take Heaven.

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.

Take Peace.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow.,

behind it, yet within reach, is joy.

Take joy.

It is easy to be pleasant

When life flows by like a song,

But the man worth while is one who will smile,

When everything goes dead wrong.

For the test of the heart is trouble,

And it always comes with the years,

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth

Is the smile that shines through the tears.

~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~

Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil,

the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied.

Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time,

and they need not doubt the harvest.

~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~

I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they have made up their minds to be.

@,~>

If you want to be happy,

Begin where you are,

Don't wait for some rapture

That's future and far.

Begin to be joyous, begin to be glad

And soon you'll forget

That you ever were sad.

A smile is cheer to you and me.

The cost is nothing - it's given free.

It comforts the weary - gladdens the sad.

Consoles those in trouble - good or bad.

To rich and poor - beggar or thief.

It's free to all of any belief.

A natural gesture of young and old.

Cheers on the faint - disarms the bold.

Unlike most blessings for which we pray.

It's one thing we keep when we give it away.

Love

2011-09-23T11:50:00.000-07:00

To love is virtually to know., to know is not virtually to love.

~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~

To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

Let us be the first to give a friendly sign, to nod first, smile first, speak first, and - if such a thing is necessary, forgive first.

For we must share if we would keep., That blessing from above., Ceasing to give, we cease to have, Such is the law of love.

Measure your life by loss instead of gain., not by the wine drunk, but in the wine poured forth, for love's sacrifice., and who suffers most has most to give.

Return to him who does you wrong your purest love, and he will cease from doing wrong., for love will purify the heart of him who is beloved as truly as it purifies the heart of him who loves.

It is in loving, not in being loved, the heart is blessed., It is in giving, not in seeking gifts, we find our quest., Whatever be your longing or your need, that give., So shall your soul be fed, and you indeed shall live.

~ * ~

Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to produce together conditions under which each can be, and spontaneously express, his real self., to produce together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone.

Come what may, hold fast to love! Though men should rend your heart, let them not embitter or harden it. We win by tenderness., we conquer by forgiveness.

~ * ~
I've found a little remedy
To ease the life we live
And make each day a happier one -
It is the word 'forgive'.

So often little things come up
That leave a pain and sting,
That covered up at once would not
Amount to anything.

'Tis when we hold them up to view,
And brood and sulk and fret,
They greater grow before our eyes.,
'Twere better to forget.

~ * ~

Politeness is a small price to pay for the good will and affection of others.

He drew a circle that shut me out,
But love and I had the wit to win.,
We drew a large circle that took him in.

~

'Twas her thinking of others made you think of her.

pay aware or not

2011-08-31T17:02:00.001-07:00

My music goes with you for cure of humanity's wrong.

To invert the affront when you fail to sing my song.

The script codes on the surface are in line with time.

The spirals twist and unfold to form a line.

Take a walk in these fields where all things form.

Seek the root of the atoms which stray the norm.

Levels of esters in growth as enzymes catalyze.

Amino acids build the molecules for protein we synthesize.

Learn from the message inlaid, how to genetically realign.

Growth of the plant and man are intertwined.

Primal DNA is gift of Mother Earth no man claimed.

All memory of time in soil or script in stone are here engrained.

Man's sight to enable the brain's circuitry recognitions.

A stimulus for our thoughts cognitive revelations.

Messages on Earth's canvas guide us in time of need.

Historical repetition of linguistics mankind must heed.

Renditions by an unknown artist paint a lost memory now past.

A forgotten language in the shadows time has outcast.

Earth's mass must reciprocate unto Light's energy demand.

The black of night absorbs in silence the need of reprimand.

Empty spaces hold, contained rest energies.

Where diffractions of the Light bends for gravity to appease.

Perfusing now these long forgotten links to thought in time.

Awakens simplicity to complex reason without rhyme.

Take a ninety degree angle, lay it on a line and a convex curved.

The geometric design signifies what the Egyptian long ago learned.

To heal the Earth is to free the Mind.

Absorb the Sun, to reach height of our climb.

Evolutionary leaders sing a song of mutant codes.

Evolution without time is song only time's past knows.

The Earth sings the song whose harmonic is for the Cosmic race.

Therein is so defined, the music humanity's imprint could not erase.

~ RAM Original 2009 ~

Wisdom Creation

2009-09-03T23:04:00.000-07:00

Path of Inner Peace

By feeling satisfied with what I have,
I feel no envy.
By giving freely to thouse who will take,
I feel no anger.
By understanding the fears of others,
I feel no hate.
By accepting the diverseness of others,
I feel no judgment.
By recognizing the specialness of all,
I feel no self importance.
By sensing the wonders of Mother Earth,
I feel humble.
By knowing all that I can do,
I feel humility.
By these feelings,
I walk the Path of Peace.

~ Mississquoi Nation (Virginia)

Thy Divine

2009-09-03T22:59:00.000-07:00

The fountains mingle with the River
And the Rivers with the Ocean
The winds of the Heavens mix forever
With a sweet emotion

Nothing in the world is single
All things by law divine
In one another's being mingle
Why not I with Thine

See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And waves clasp one another
No flower would be forgiven
If its disdained to set assunder

And Sunlight clasps the Earth
And the Moonbeams kiss the Sea
What are all these kissings worth
If Thou kiss not me

All Rights Reserved 2009 ram

Breath

2009-09-03T22:52:00.000-07:00

Always will I bask in your Sun of Suns
As your rays of purity breaks through my clouds
Never will rain find its way into my world
As long as you are there to push away
The storms that try to cease my Soul
Speechless, am I not...
For your words become mine
What molds that heart into something pure
I am so much more inside your arms
Although, when it cannot be...
I also cannot seem to have enough of you
I take in every breath of you
As if I will never take a breath again
The sweetness of your taste
The softeness of your golden skin
Takes me to a realm of supreme ecstasy

All Rights Reserved 2008 ram

Take My Hand

2009-09-03T22:45:00.000-07:00

Take my hand in your hand
take upon my only heart
Bind me close to you
under the Moonlit sky

Dance with me near
where your heart beats
Sweep the skies with beauty
from end to end

The clouds hidden stars thrill in secret
sparks ignite
Filling the hot Summer air
let me fill the fullness of your heart

I praise your returning glance
the infinite skies motionless
With the thought of a touch
I am filled with awe

Take my hand in your hand
be with you in you with me
To you within, from within
no struggle crossed the Sea of desire
As you sink deep into my Soul

All Rights Reserved 2009 ram

About to Become

2009-06-22T19:23:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time but here is today
Through a state of mind, warm hearted effects grow
Just a little more than before
For the words are all around us
The coming of a new day,
shows what matters in life
Reopen the blessings
In disguise, the unstoppable force of goodwill
Showing peaceful understanding rewarded,
In contact with all efforts
The Universe is far more tranquil
Than what is seen by the eye,
Truth is what is
Within palm at hand
The importance of promising Tomorrows
Their dreams are beyond
The inspiration stays within
For being is to be
A greater experience keeps balance
One day to see what is understood
Still moving, its precious mentality's key
Guarded with sweetness of love
Another day about to be
Pulled away from expired's past

Silent Grace

2009-06-22T18:59:00.000-07:00

The beauty's attraction not willing to forget
burying feelings of a tearful heart left behind
considering to achieve the feeling of grace
left to burden in wholeness of a sweet embrace

Stillness to regain all lost to downfall of such
in return with nothing more and nothing less forgiven
the waiting for its own to disappear
try as it may in the shadow of no fear

With clearer knowledge perceived in trust
the open heart breaks free from a past
to this too much of nothingness had faded
through holding together the expression shaded

The feelings from sorrows painful rest
in honoring our own nature in spite of
the love reached out accepting otherwise
of affectionate emotions searched with opened eyes

The expectations of life listened carefully
accepted in ambitions inspired to change
given in memories of thoughts for more
longing for words embraced to adore

To changes of each other were found to shelter
only touching the edges reign to life's content
eyes wide open living in confidence
the peace entered patiently with silence

Without Time

2009-06-22T18:26:00.000-07:00

The summer is a desert,

between mountains lavish with joys of Spring and Fall.

I look across that bleak and lonely wasteland,

seeing no redemption at all.

I cannot think how I will cross without you,

to reach the golden hillsides of dreams.

I cannot imagine not to look too hard at what that means.

Time, the enemy of the timeless,

must compensate at those it bereaves.

Waiting until once more,

we can share the blaze of turning leaves.

Waves of Glory

2009-06-21T21:14:00.000-07:00

Small waves, huge waves

thunderous in their sweep

Whether how strong, always there is a wave

No time is there, when there is none

every one different from the other

not a single one is divided

The wave lands on the beach

but it does not cease to be

Changing form, receding back

It does not get smaller

every time it hits the sand

the incoming waves reveals

the ocean's majesty

By then receding from within

it restores the ocean's glory

Light

2009-06-21T21:10:00.000-07:00

In gracious skies you won't find

Its whispering from within

Being the life you lead

Love reflects beauty you see

What kindness can you do

Knowing desires you can change

To be, you create your own

In pure content, you believe

Your humbled heart breathes

Break your silence and listen

What you find will heal noble pride

By chance you'll see what you might see

The facade becomes radiant.

It becomes you...

Be the Light

Breath

2009-06-21T21:04:00.000-07:00

Always will I bask in your Sun of Suns

as your rays of purity breaks through my clouds.

Never will rain find its way into my world,

as long as you are there to push away

the storms that try to cease my soul.

Speechless am I not..

for your words become mine.

What molds that heart into something pure

I am so much more inside your arms.

Although when it cannot be..

I also cannot seem to have enough of you.

I take in every breath of you

as if I will never take a breath again.

The sweetness of your taste,

the softness of your golden skin.

Takes me to a realm of supreme ecstasy.

Captive Heart

2009-06-21T20:56:00.000-07:00

shared by the same Moon
each night brings a bond
distance is a waste of time
no longer awaiting
the cage door opens
as the captive heart melts
surrendering its flame
to let it go and be
without condition expressed
no limitation to another
love with no ending
it goes on forever

Beloved

2008-10-19T20:29:00.000-07:00

accepting sigh's forgiveness

in reasons unknown

beauty's passion untouched

inside still, love is invited

becomes undivided

embracing you

embracing me

when the heart listens

strength is timeless

with open arms

stay

United Part II

2008-10-09T18:48:00.000-07:00

Inspired
protected, nurtured
with compassion
defending the greater good
of those who rely on me
I am blessed by patience given
while trust is my gift

Change
revolution overcoming these obstacles
It is my honor to protect
my perception of empowerment
by expectation commitment keeps on
conquering all fears
to be inspired by ambition

Truth
meet the anguish of resistance
in the relief of recognition
no need to go it alone
we are One
taking a great leap forward
to a blessing for peace

Compassion
an edge on the horizon
waiting on the wings of hope
keep on striving to reach
the unconditional Love
beckoning you with Mother Nature
giving for greater greatness

United
for today and the days beyond
yesterday's dreams spent
for many tomorrow's to come
the crossroads of past to the now
compromised to belong as us
as you and i become we

(c) Copyright 2008 ram

United

2008-10-09T18:44:00.000-07:00

trusted in the midst
supportive of the needy
attempting of fulfilled hopes
Rekindled breakthrough
to deeply respect prepared
for significant change
fully immerged to noble efforts
on the verge of entering life
lifting another's spirits with kind hearts
on through the heavens pass onto others
the kingdoms of nature
of reflection's self healing old wounds
an infusion of substance
waiting on the wings of hope
to humanity in need of inspiration
captured by imagination
eras of the past in your image
the future in your hands
of overlooked treasures kept
of only beauty's eye can relate
for peace of mind united

(c) Copyright 2008 ram

In The Hands of Grace

2008-10-09T18:41:00.000-07:00

Words that heal the uplifting
adapting to versatility
By only Truth steers Reality
warmhearted to courage
Life see's itself saved
yet for another day
we hold ourselves together
to one another
for as long as the Sun rises
and midnight falls
seeing through with sense of Wonder
for a change, for life continued
with each silver lining for sake
all Childhood Future's at stake
We Are The Miracle*
In The Eyes of a Child
In The Crossroads of Our Time
ending with no rhyme
Dreams have a place to stay
with sympathy sorrow fades away
as we All join in Together
hand in hand to a tomorrow in place
in Joy's to Beauty is to a Child's Grace

(c) Copyright 2008 ram

Presence of Grace

2008-10-08T20:51:00.000-07:00

change enlightened
to an unstoppable force i greet
with kind hearth grow in mind
make my strength humble along the way
i lay it on the line
taking chance, yet again
positive i am
to receive against all lose
in attempts to fulfill all hope
unheard abilities take my advantage
to make do in keeping on
prepared before me, close by
i believe to prove my exhaustion
you have a day in my path
and your interest revives me
i am awake

(c) Copyright 2008 ram

The Journey ~ The Passage

2008-10-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

declaring universal peace
all around you, shifted
attention paid in full
knowledge, words expressed
changed, not virtually motionless
dashing into reverse mode unspoken
re-evolving the irreversible
work through happenings, no reprieve
the turning tide perceived by passage
an inspiration reverted
leading far within miles hence
correcting mistakes learned
fall away from completion
its connection undertaken by us all
discouraged we are not to be scared
close to home is too far too long
this is the now
what is improved to be received
surrounding by values is such
as in honour to be trusted, respected
living through to tomorrow well deserved

(c) Copyright 2008 ram

rising

2008-10-08T20:45:00.000-07:00

Yet more is the evidence that love's on the rise
energies so pristine and pure
a stillness, a calmness so moving
to feel in silence one knows nothing truer
higher and higher the mountains we're climbing
and crossing the rivers so deep
moving right on to the new day dawning
with more and more waking from sleep
conscious expansion in crystalline waves
the masses they're feeling the change
we breathe in air that with calmness is filled
and feeling so joyous yet strange
a newness of life is now touching us all
such love ever so great, it's supreme
this change it is sweeping the old out the door
flung wide open we welcome the dream