Courtesans of the doorway
welcome you
What
is your desire?
Step
a little closer to your dreams
Leave the burden of a colder life
behind
Take
off your coats
your hats and masks reach out
and teach yourself
that which you always know
but continually forget.
Enjoy
the elegance of life
The glorious
ultimate
giving!
A
Sufi parable
In one of the great court banquets, everyone was seated according
to rank, waiting the entry of the king. In came a plain shabby man
and took a seat above everyone else. His boldness angered the prime
minister who ordered the newcomer to identify himself.
Was he a minister?
No. More.
Was he the king?
No. More.
"Are you then god?" Asked the prime minister.
"I am above that also," replied the poor man.
"There is nothing more than god," retorted the prime minister.
"That nothing," came the response, "is me."
"Everything
sacred moves in a circle."
Black
Elk
"The
drum is the great spirit's favourite instrument, that is why we were
all given a heartbeat!"
Mano,
Navajo Elder
Sometime
I go about in great pity for myself,
and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky
Ojibwa
saying
It
is useless to waste your life on one path, especially if that path
has no heart.
Before you embark on a path, you ask the question: Does this path
have a heart?
If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must chose another
path.
A path without a heart is never enjoyable.
You have to work hard even to take it.
On the other hand, a path with a heart is easy; it does not make you
work at liking it.
Carlos
Casteneda
