Great and inspiring poems and texts - The Art of Hosting2024-03-29T08:41:06Zhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/great-and-inspiring-poems-and?commentId=4134568%3AComment%3A57507&feed=yes&xn_auth=no"Given To"
by Ruth Bebermeye…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2015-03-14:4134568:Comment:965702015-03-14T15:15:07.671ZPetre Damochttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/PetreDamoc
<p>"Given To" </p>
<p>by Ruth Bebermeyer</p>
<div>I never feel more given to</div>
<div>than when you take from me –</div>
<div>when you understand the joy I feel</div>
<div> giving to you.</div>
<div>And you know my giving isn’t done</div>
<div> to put you in my debt,</div>
<div>but because I want to live the love</div>
<div> I feel for you.</div>
<div>To receive with grace</div>
<div>may be the greatest giving.</div>
<div>There’s no way I can separate</div>
<div> the…</div>
<p>"Given To" </p>
<p>by Ruth Bebermeyer</p>
<div>I never feel more given to</div>
<div>than when you take from me –</div>
<div>when you understand the joy I feel</div>
<div> giving to you.</div>
<div>And you know my giving isn’t done</div>
<div> to put you in my debt,</div>
<div>but because I want to live the love</div>
<div> I feel for you.</div>
<div>To receive with grace</div>
<div>may be the greatest giving.</div>
<div>There’s no way I can separate</div>
<div> the two.</div>
<div>When you give to me,</div>
<div>I give you my receiving.</div>
<div>When you take from me, I feel so</div>
<div> given to.</div> The original site seams dead…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2015-03-14:4134568:Comment:965672015-03-14T15:13:13.405ZPetre Damochttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/PetreDamoc
<p>The original site seams dead (March 2015):<br></br><br></br>Here is the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130518052011/http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html" target="_blank">last Internet Archive of the site</a>. <br></br> <br></br> <cite>Amanda Fenton said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/great-and-inspiring-poems-and?id=4134568%3ATopic%3A7201&page=2#4134568Comment68635"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Shared from Chris Corrigan via the AoH…</p>
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<p>The original site seams dead (March 2015):<br/><br/>Here is the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130518052011/http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html" target="_blank">last Internet Archive of the site</a>. <br/> <br/> <cite>Amanda Fenton said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/great-and-inspiring-poems-and?id=4134568%3ATopic%3A7201&page=2#4134568Comment68635"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Shared from Chris Corrigan via the AoH list:</p>
<p><span>There are tons of books, but this site has the classics…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html" target="_blank">http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html</a></p>
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</blockquote> This, hours before a next pha…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-12-08:4134568:Comment:870952013-12-08T00:44:22.599ZWayfarer doug cohenhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/Wayfarerdougcohen
This, hours before a next phase Hosting coming out party, event in the SW Bio-Region is TFA - Totally Freakin' Amazing...<br />
Thanks CC & entire community...In Alliance for the Cause(s) - wayfarer
This, hours before a next phase Hosting coming out party, event in the SW Bio-Region is TFA - Totally Freakin' Amazing...<br />
Thanks CC & entire community...In Alliance for the Cause(s) - wayfarer And other online resource: ht…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-11-22:4134568:Comment:686742012-11-22T05:23:41.047ZAmanda Fentonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>And other online resource: <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/browse/" target="_blank">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/browse/</a></p>
<p>And other online resource: <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/browse/" target="_blank">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/browse/</a></p> Shared via Twitter by Kara Pe…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-11-16:4134568:Comment:685492012-11-16T06:48:51.228ZAmanda Fentonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>Shared via Twitter by Kara Pecknold</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/2011/05/13/what-to-read-this-weekend-elizabeth-gilbert-on-creativity-wesley-yang-on-paper-tigers-and-wendell-berry-on-quiet/" target="_blank">I Go Among Things and Sit Still by Wendell Berry</a></p>
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<p>I go among trees and sit still.<br></br>All my stirring becomes quiet<br></br>around me like circles on water.<br></br>My tasks lie in their places<br></br>where I left them, asleep like…</p>
<p>Shared via Twitter by Kara Pecknold</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/2011/05/13/what-to-read-this-weekend-elizabeth-gilbert-on-creativity-wesley-yang-on-paper-tigers-and-wendell-berry-on-quiet/" target="_blank">I Go Among Things and Sit Still by Wendell Berry</a></p>
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<p>I go among trees and sit still.<br/>All my stirring becomes quiet<br/>around me like circles on water.<br/>My tasks lie in their places<br/>where I left them, asleep like cattle.</p>
<p>Then what is afraid of me comes<br/>and lives a while in my sight.<br/>What it fears in me leaves me,<br/>and the fear of me leaves it.<br/>It sings, and I hear its song.</p>
<p>Then what I am afraid of comes.<br/>I live for a while in its sight.<br/>What I fear in it leaves it,<br/>and the fear of it leaves me.<br/>It sings, and I hear its song.</p>
<p>After days of labor,<br/>mute in my consternations,<br/>I hear my song at last,<br/>and I sing it. As we sing,<br/>the day turns, the trees move.</p> Shared via Twitter from Bonni…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-11-16:4134568:Comment:684632012-11-16T06:47:16.184ZAmanda Fentonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>Shared via Twitter from Bonnie Koenig: </p>
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<p>I<a href="http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Rudyard_Kipling/kipling_if.htm" target="_blank">f by Rudyard Kipling</a></p>
<p>If you can keep your head when all about you <br></br>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; <br></br>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, <br></br>But make allowance for their doubting too; <br></br>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, <br></br>Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, <br></br>Or, being…</p>
<p>Shared via Twitter from Bonnie Koenig: </p>
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<p>I<a href="http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Rudyard_Kipling/kipling_if.htm" target="_blank">f by Rudyard Kipling</a></p>
<p>If you can keep your head when all about you <br/>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; <br/>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, <br/>But make allowance for their doubting too; <br/>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, <br/>Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, <br/>Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, <br/>And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;</p>
<p>If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; <br/>If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; <br/>If you can meet with triumph and disaster <br/>And treat those two imposters just the same; <br/>If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken <br/>Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, <br/>Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, <br/>And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;</p>
<p>If you can make one heap of all your winnings <br/>And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, <br/>And lose, and start again at your beginnings <br/>And never breath a word about your loss; <br/>If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew <br/>To serve your turn long after they are gone, <br/>And so hold on when there is nothing in you <br/>Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";</p>
<p>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, <br/>Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; <br/>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; <br/>If all men count with you, but none too much; <br/>If you can fill the unforgiving minute <br/>With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - <br/>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, <br/>And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!</p> Shared from Chris Corrigan vi…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-11-16:4134568:Comment:686352012-11-16T06:41:27.786ZAmanda Fentonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>Shared from Chris Corrigan via the AoH list:</p>
<p><span>There are tons of books, but this site has the classics…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html" target="_blank">http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html</a></p>
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<p>Shared from Chris Corrigan via the AoH list:</p>
<p><span>There are tons of books, but this site has the classics…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html" target="_blank">http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html</a></p>
<p></p> Shared from Jasenka Gojsic vi…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-11-16:4134568:Comment:684602012-11-16T06:40:32.450ZAmanda Fentonhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/AmandaFenton
<p>Shared from Jasenka Gojsic via the AoH list:</p>
<p>...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future,…</p>
<p>Shared from Jasenka Gojsic via the AoH list:</p>
<p>...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.</p>
<p align="right">Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903</p>
<p align="right">in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0394741048/elisecomA/" target="_blank">Letters to a Young Poet</a></p> Extract from Paulo Coelho's W…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-11-12:4134568:Comment:682812012-11-12T19:22:55.817ZMeri Lundahlhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/MeriLundahl
<p>Extract from Paulo Coelho's Warrior of the Light: A Manual<br></br><br></br></p>
<p>Warriors of light keep the spark in their eyes.</p>
<p>They are in the world, are part of other people’s lives, and began their journey without a rucksack and sandals. They are often cowards. They don’t always act right.</p>
<p>Warriors of light suffer over useless things, have some petty attitudes, and at times feel they are incapable of growing. They frequently believe they are unworthy of any blessing or…</p>
<p>Extract from Paulo Coelho's Warrior of the Light: A Manual<br/><br/></p>
<p>Warriors of light keep the spark in their eyes.</p>
<p>They are in the world, are part of other people’s lives, and began their journey without a rucksack and sandals. They are often cowards. They don’t always act right.</p>
<p>Warriors of light suffer over useless things, have some petty attitudes, and at times feel they are incapable of growing. They frequently believe they are unworthy of any blessing or miracle.</p>
<p>Warriors of light are not always sure what they are doing here. Often they stay up all night thinking that their lives have no meaning.</p>
<p>Every warrior of light has felt the fear of joining in battle. Every warrior of light has once lost faith in the future.</p>
<p>Every warrior of light has once trodden a path that was not his/her. Every warrior of light has once felt that he/she was not a warrior of light. Every warrior of light has once failed in his/her spiritual obligations.</p>
<p>That is what makes them warriors of light; because they have has been through all this and have not lost the hope of becoming better.</p>
<p>That is why they are warriors of light.<br/>Because they make mistakes.<br/>Because they wonder.<br/>Because they look for a reason – and they will certainly find one.</p> Offered by Rose Gordon on the…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-07-24:4134568:Comment:575072012-07-24T19:17:09.936ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p><em>Offered by Rose Gordon on the emaillist:</em></p>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">This one is one of my favorites, speaking to the understanding and knowing that comes through channels beyond thought; by Machado.<br></br></span></span></div>
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<p><em>Offered by Rose Gordon on the emaillist:</em></p>
<div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">This one is one of my favorites, speaking to the understanding and knowing that comes through channels beyond thought; by Machado.<br/></span></span></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Last night As I Was Sleeping</strong></span></span></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Last night as I was sleeping,<br/>I dreamt—marvelous error!—<br/>that a spring was breaking<br/>out in my heart.<br/>I said: Along which secret aqueduct,<br/>Oh water, are you coming to me,<br/>water of a new life</span></div>
<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">that I have never drunk?<br/><br/>Last night as I was sleeping,<br/>I dreamt—marvelous error!—<br/>that I had a beehive<br/>here inside my heart.<br/>And the golden bees<br/>were making white combs<br/>and sweet honey</span></div>
<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">from my old failures.<br/><br/>Last night as I was sleeping,<br/>I dreamt—marvelous error!—<br/>that a fiery sun was giving<br/>light inside my heart.<br/>It was fiery because I felt<br/>warmth as from a hearth,<br/>and sun because it gave light<br/>and brought tears to my eyes.<br/><br/>Last night as I slept,<br/>I dreamt—marvelous error!—<br/>that it was God I had<br/>here inside my heart.<br/><br/> Translated by Robert Bly</span></div>