Posted: February 19th, 2011 | Author: Xorin Balbes | Filed under: Beauty, SoulSpace | Tags: Beauty, poetry, Rumi, soul | No Comments »
A bit of verse to contemplate today:
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
–Rumi
Posted: June 27th, 2010 | Author: Xorin Balbes | Filed under: Beauty, Ke Ao Lanihuli, SoulSpace, TempleHome, Xorin Balbes, Xorin8, XorinBalbes | Tags: Beauty, Ke Ao Lanihuli, Maui, SoulSpace, TempleHome, Xorin Balbes, XorinBalbes | No Comments »
I’ve been going back and forth to Maui and have just returned. Each time I’m there I think about a concept that’s so fundamental to our very existence but we don’t discuss enough.
Beauty.
Both what we’re creating in Maui at the Ke-Ao Lanihuli ranch and my home in Los Feliz remind me how beauty settles the soul and mind – and reminds me that everything is OK in my world. Although I’ve lived in my home for going on 8 years now, I wake up every day with a grateful spirit, thankful for the beauty that I live in and am surrounded by.
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