Contagion

The disease of sour face
has a wonderful medicine:
it is the contagious smile.
Let's give one to many
and sour face disease may fade.

The disease of looking away
has a wonderful remedy:
it is the contagious loving look.
Let us give one to many
and this disease will fade away

And there is one super drug
for still many more diseases:
it is the contagious random kind act.
Let us give one to many
and a healthy society may evolve.

 
 

Care

When I grew up, Christmas time meant family time.

The coziness of cold evenings, spent near the wood fire.

The small but beautiful decorations, put up by my mom.

Now it has become a time of the year of peace and reflection.

My mom is no longer around, my dad neither.

I still value so much the values they taught me:

 

Roots reaching deep 

in my heart and soul 

A seed had been planted 

Mom had planted love and care

The roots reach so deep
'coz she watered the seed
she fed it and let grow
from sapling to majestic tree

The roots are deep and strong.
Getting love and care, for so long
Blossoms, fruits all year round
Seeds to share and lots of bliss

So many thanks my mom

Oceanic fluxes of kindness

A Flake of Truth

A flake of truth
A crumb of honesty
A drop of kindness
A grain of humility

Himalayan mounts of truth
Thousands loafs of honesty
Oceanic fluxes of kindness
Truck loads of humility

From a good start
To a lofty destination 

Yesterday, I browsed the internet for my pen name (Aufie Zophy) and found that the above poem was quite commonly shared on social media. I wrote it years ago and enjoyed reading it again. So true, that many of us have made this good start and are on our way to that lofty destination, filled with peace of mind and true happiness, in the second stanza. I liked the third verse of the second stanza so much that I made it the title of a new poem: 

Oceanic Fluxes of Kindness 

Oceanic fluxes of kindness will soon
Flood the stock exchange of greed
Melodies of caring love will be the tune;
will be the main luxurious chambers' creed

The phenomenon already started with you
Your kindness has already inspired a few
Who, in turn, are now motivating others too
A giant breath, a world so fresh and new.

 

Do I know?

Knowledge is power.

I try to read a bit every day, to gain more knowledge.

It feels good to know more. 

But we cannot allow knowledge to render us arrogant

Arrogance is a sign of ignorance

Arrogance is a sign of extremely limited knowledge.

I just looked at a video from Sadguru. 

While I do not agree 

with quite a number of things he says,

he does share several times some great wisdom.

In that video, he said something like this:

"If you ‘d read all libraries in the world,

You will know something 

But compared to this existence, this life

Still our knowledge is minuscule 

Our ignorance is boundless

If we identify with our ignorance,

We become boundless, limitless 

If we identify with our knowledge 

We become constipated

Constipated means it happens little by little.

And that is how many people live 

They need so much things to happen 

To find a little bit of joy in life

We have too strive, to do so many things 

To find a moment of joy, of ecstasy

 

If you want to live a life

Drenched with countless ecstasies,

In every cell of your body at any moment, 

we are to embrace our ignorance. 

If we come to terms with our ignorance.

 

We will pay attention 

If we accept our ignorance 

We will naturally pay more attention"

 

And this is so true!

No matter how much we read,

let us remain aware that we do not know.
So many explanations, we tend to accept blindly and make it a belief.

It is a curse rather than a blessing. Our believes become convictions

and they will make us disrespect anyone who believes differently.

Our convictions make us fight with each other. 

 

The key to a happy life, filled with bliss

is to come to terms with the fact that we do not know

We do not even know an atom in its entirety. 

We have no clue what happens 

in the space between the protons and the electrons

Quantum physics, the science, which

NOT a person, fully can grasp, 

may be the thing that rules every process in our cells.

 

Let us embrace our ignorance

Pay attention 

and do not blindly swallow what big media wants to indoctrinate us with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relatively

When life seems like a drop 

and death seems like an ocean

Then an hour of life seems like a molecule

 

To a molecule, a drop seems like an ocean

 

We are drinking molecule after molecule

and sometimes we forget to taste every bit...

 

Within our life we have many hours,

but sometimes we waste hour after hour with nonsense,

forgetting to build in some beauty, some love, some peace,

some creativity into our days. 

 

Let us become more aware today of the drop that our life really is,

and appreciate every molecule inside the drop that was given to us

:) 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃:) 

I wish that lots of love, peace, beauty and creativity may adorn your life

 

Let it in

Foam, abundant foam on breaking waves 

Everyone has seen it

Not everyone has let the beauty of it in

 

The wonderful orchestra of birds in the morning

Everyone has heard it 

Not everyone has let the beauty of it in

The amazing shapes and forms of clouds in the sky

Every one has seen them 

Not everyone has let the beauty of it in.

You could easily add a thousand beautiful things

We have all seen or heard

But we did not take the time to let the beauty in

Let us let in every thing of beauty we encounter.

Let it touch our inner mind

Let it touch our heart and the deepest of our soul.

 

 

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Safe links to other blogs/sites that may be worth a bit of your time:

 

A look at some beautiful skies: https://hansvro.wixsite.com/mysite-1/skies-seen-by-hans 

Beautiful flowers: https://hansvro.wixsite.com/flowersbyhans

 

Inspirational poetry https://aufiezophypoems.blogspot.com/

Some beautiful inspirational quotes:  https://quotesfromhans.blogspot.com/ 

A fantastic short story: https://afishwithawish.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-fish-with-wish-whole-story.html

Simply some essays about good things: https://abcofvirtues.blogspot.com/