The Crystalline

"The Crystalline know how to remain the center.
Between shifting worlds and strange times.
They tread the nameless path without
naming the narrowness.
They squeeze through the eye of the needle
with naked faith and raw trust.
They are the conquerors of the inertia of history.
They have found the secret gate.
Regenerated by their own tongues.
They speak only what is glorious.
Their minds dwell on Rainbow Light.
direct discovery
silent rapture
Nothing else exists
but this..."

(Author unknown)

Sudden Light

We have been here before,         
But when or how I cannot tell:     
I know the grass beyond the door,         
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound,
the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before, -         
How long ago I may not know:     
But just when at that swallow's soar         
Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, -
I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?         
And shall not thus time's eddying flight     
Still with our lives our love restore         
In death's despite,
And day and night yield
one delight once more?

~Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Walk

"My eyes already touch the
sunny hill
going far ahead of the road
I have begun.
So we are grasped by what
we cannot grasp;
it has its inner light, even
from a distance.

And changes us, even if we
do not reach it,
into something else,
which hardly sensing it,
we already are;
a gesture waves us on,
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind
in our faces."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Reach just a little bit higher...

"Child, child,
Do you not see?
For each of us comes a time
When we must be more than what we are."

~Lloyd Alexander