We little knew that morning that God
Was going to call your name.
In life we loved you dearly,
In death we do the same.
It broke our hearts to lose you,
You did not go alone;
For part of us went with you,
The day God called you home.
You left us peaceful memories,
Your love is still our guide;
And though we cannot see you,
You are always at our side.
Our family chain is broken,
And nothing seems the same;
But as God calls us, one by one,
The Chain will link again.

Author unknown

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too.
I have come all this way eager for you,
without shoes or shawl.
I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries, to love you, to nourish you.
Oh sweet bitterness, I will soothe you and heal you.
I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns

~Written by Rumi

Be a rose which gives fragrance
even to those who crushes it.

~Unknown

All beings tremble before violence.
All fear death.
All love life.

See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?

~Buddha

Master your words.
Master your thoughts.
Never allow your body to do harm.
Follow these three roads with purity
And you will find yourself upon the one way,
The way of wisdom.

~Buddha

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you love. And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people.

Understanding and love are not two things, but just one. Suppose your son wakes up one morning and sees that it is already quite late. He decides to wake up his younger sister, to give her enough time to eat breakfast before going to school. It happens that she is grouchy and instead of saying, “Thank you for waking me up,” she says, “Shut up!  Leave me alone!” and kicks him. He will probably get angry, thinking, “I woke her up nicely. Why did she kick me?” He may want to go to the kitchen and tell you about it, or even kick her back. But then he remembers that during the night his sister coughed a lot, and he realizes that she must be sick. Maybe she has a could, maybe that is why she behaved so meanly. He is not angry anymore. At that moment there is Buddha in him. He understands, he is awake. When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

I never forget the day my little turtle came to see me at the lake, after my prayer. It was a miracle. After one hour of visit, Little Turtle would not swim a way from me…

Sometimes we worry too much about eating. We enjoy eating way too much, as though we are born only to eat, without thinking about the welfare of animals – big or little…We hardly take time to contemplate on animals’ lives. As though we do not care one bit about their safety. I think we are too selfish. We think too much about ourselves, we think too much about delicious food… We complain non-stop when someone said bad things to us, speak unpleasant words to us, but we never complain about how we, ourselves, treating others. That is not LOVE

May each day be blessed
With all sorts of wonderful things;
Like the comfort of love and the joy of hope
And the warmth that having a good friend brings

May your tomorrows be carefree;
Free from worries and fears
May each moment be magical
Lasting through the years

May this day find you well
As you cross my mind
And may you know that you’re
An important person in my life

~The Poetry Pad

See that golden hue
Burning in the west
My dreams are with that color
My dreams are the sun
The sun always sets
But never seems to rise
That sun carries my dreams
Slowly out of my reach
I watch it slide away
Leaving me behind
The color disappears
My dreams are with that sun
Whenever the sun sets
It rises in another place
A place blessed by that light
My dreams are hidden in that light
At my window seat
I watch the sun take it all away
My dreams are with the sun
My dreams are the sun

Poem title: My Dreams Are the Sun
~Written by Dawn Michelle

Never take someone for granted,
Hold every person close to your heart
because you might wake up one day
and realize that you’ve lost a diamond
while you were too busy collecting stones…