Leonard Cohen

 Bird on the Wire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lWcqbVKhCs 

(sung by Leonard  Cohen as an old man)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPUu-rMpWA

(sung by Leonard Cohen as young man)

The Lord is my Shepherd

Psalm 23 

The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.

2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.

3 He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil;
For Thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

5 Thou prepares a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou anoint my head with oil;
My cup runneth over.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord
Forever.

Song of Solomon, Poetry for the Soul

 

Book of Hebrews

1. Song of Solomon 2:8-14
   Look! Listen! There’s my lover! Do you see him coming? Vaulting the mountains, leaping the hills. My lover is like a gazelle, graceful; like a young stag, virile. Look at him there, on tiptoe at the gate, all ears, all eyes—ready! My lover has arrived and he’s speaking to me! 

   The Man

   Get up, my dear friend, fair and beautiful lover—come to me! Look around you: Winter is over; the winter rains are over, gone! Spring flowers are in blossom all over. The whole world’s a choir—and singing! Spring warblers are filling the forest with sweet strains. Lilacs are exuberantly purple and perfumed, and cherry trees fragrant with blossoms. Oh, get up, dear friend, my fair and beautiful lover—come to me! Come, my shy and modest dove— leave your seclusion, come out in the open. Let me see your face, let me hear your voice. For your voice is soothing and your face is ravishing.

finding for ourselves

John 14:23—KJV

23 ... If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

"If we love our Teachers, we will try and keep their words. But to do so, we must see what the Teacher is made of. We must feel instinctively that the Teacher gives us food.

I am sure you would not listen to me for two minutes if you did not think I gave you food—and this is the same for all Teachers. But to give food, we must receive food, and we can only do this in the same way as everyone else—by work on ourselves—by deeper and deeper work to discover ourselves. 

Then we can pass what we have gained onto others, so that they may benefit by our finding and may go forth and find for themselves. Because this is what really teaches us—finding for ourselves—work upon ourselves."

—A Point in the Work: A Continuation of the work of G.I. Gurdjieff. Ouspensky, and Maurice Nicoll—anonymous

The Prologue to St. John's Gospel

Dearest & Nearest,

The Prologue to St. John's Gospel:

 1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 2 All things came into being through God; without God was not anything made that was made. 4 In God was life, and the life was the light of humanity. 5 And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

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Darkness cannot understand Light! And darkness can NOT put out  the Light.  So fear not the darkness. It is simply your wrong understanding. It is not real except as you make it real by believing in it. 

The angels say: O Beautiful One. Why believe in that which is not real, which was never real, which is made real only through ignorance? When your wrong understanding dissolves, so does darkness.