YOU and ME

Have you found your soul mate yet?

Words found in old St. Paul's Church Baltimore dated 1692

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, remember what peace there maybe in silence.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant, they too have their story.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser person than yourself.

Exercise caution for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to virtue there is, many people strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Do not feign affection, neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength fo spirit to shield you in sudden misrortune. Be gentle with yourself.

You are child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars, you have right to be here.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspiration.

In the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.

You and me, hand in hand, standing in front of this ancient church, silent.

Rumi words comes to my mind, when we fimally move on, leaving our footsteps in the soft sand below.

There is a thread from the heart to the lips, where the secret of life is woven. Words tear the thread but in silence the secrets speak.

You take my hand and we climb up the rocky slope and we both know it will be long and hard journey...

and we know, once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing...

To always feel the presence of your soulmate next to you...

That special someone who finally makes you appreciate the body that houses your soul, the soul that makes you.

That special someone who tells you, I love your body and soul. Something about those words brings you peace and love and appreciation for all that you are.

There is a thread

that binds us together

into an invisible knot

woven from the words

and silence...

Every individual is free to choose

what their heart wants to experience

and want to feel...

You and me

know that our age

is not really different

from all other ages

because what works

what brings happiness

is eternal.

My Fellow reader,

let us open a book of poetry

by the Sufi master

written 800 years ago

to see

the real cause of suffering,

the way to stop suffering'

always remain the same.

My fellow adventurer,

my own personal mission

is to nurture and empower you

this is what turns me on

keeps me up often writing late into the night,

let us put our thoughts together

and go for a good life...

My fellow human being,

in your world

love is tender

kind

compassionate

and respectful

it is not about you

it is about us

and the magic of the moment

when two people

share from a good place in their heart.

My fellow member of the rat race,

we both have commitments in our lives

that we have to honour

and still we are breaking away

from old patterns of conditioning

that have told us

we are born to survive

at all costs,

that in order to be happy

we have to be something,

achieve something,

prove something.

There is not enough time in the day

to complete the tasks we need to do

there is no room for a breather,

no space just to relax

and feel our heart,

the spirit deep inside us.

My fellow traveller,

let us walk together

and cut through

all those conditionings

that tell us to be

who we are not.

My friend,

we are able to see

through those ideas

as false,

and what remains is love

itself.

My fellow companion,

we get so in touch

in our inner feelings

when we talk

it is unreal

we know

no one person can give the other person

everything

and yet....

When we are alone,

we feel lonely,

we don't feel we are loved,

just depressed and sad.

The sadness is such a beautiful emotion

but when we are trapped in it

for hours, weeks or months

that leads to emotional suffering.

No one person can give the other person

everything

and yet it is enough

to offer the hand

to walk the path

towards love and beauty

together.

My fellow writer,

you and me

have such a creative side,

we can not put it in a box

to wither and die

it has to be free

to be alive and well

talking to you from my soul

in poetry, music, stories or songs

caring so deeply for each other

it is just hard to believe.

My brother in pain,

we both share

our true feelings

and are not judged by it,

love each other dreams

to hope that life is a story

that all that sadness,

vulgarity,

pity,

jelausy and sacrifice

add up to something somewhere....

It is the same with our great stories

of life,

of misery, hate and love,

make us believe in each other,

cling into each other

in the same hope

that there is some reason for it.

In life you meet someone

that fills a need in your life

that only that person can fill

or fulfill your life in a special way,

you become truly blessed.

We are that to each other.

You pour your soul out to me

and you feel that healing is a result of this.

Our hearts have connected,

in a beautiful way,

let it have the wings it deserves.

My fellow dreamer,

hand in hand

we walk,

every day

on our own distant shores,

you along your rocky lake,

me along my sandy beach.

Mind in mind

we write

every day

about a romantic bay

sharing afterglow

of the setting sun,

to stirr our emotions

but we know,

imagination takes us only so far,

we need something to hold on to...

Poems that reflect on human emotions,

Songs that seek the universal truth

that is hidden in everyday individual encounters,

Let us talk, let us sing, let us write.....

We are always here

to steer each other

in the right direction...

When I am lost

your words show me the way

that lead to you

and I see you

from the distance

coming home

to me...

Note: Three wise men

and their beautiful words

were the source of inspiration

for this hub: an ancient poet,

an unknown thinker from middle ages

and the poet of today, my soulmate...