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Just so that the truth doesn't have to face you, The way you recoil from reflections of yourself. You'd forsake your happiness, your health — You would burn it all.
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In "The Peace of Wild Things" he contrasts the human and animal approach to worrying about the future, and how being with those who don't worry is a way of finding peace for those of us who do worry.

Peace sometimes means peace within, when we are facing inner struggles. The poem itself has, in its structure, something of the ebb and flow of the sea. Sometimes peace seems to be there, but like those in a wrecked ship might think they found land in the middle of the ocean, it can also be an illusion. Many illusive sightings of "peace" will come before the real peace is reached. The poem was probably meant to be about inner peace, but peace in the world can also be illusory.

Sarah Flower Adams was a Unitarian and British poet, many of whose poems have been turned into hymns. Adams was part of a progressive Christian congregation, South Place Chapel, that centered on human life and experience. In "Part in Peace" she seems to be describing the feeling of leaving a fulfilling, inspiring church service and returning to everyday life.

The second stanza:. Charlotte Perkins Gilman , a feminist writer of the late 19th and early 20th century, was concerned about social justice of many kinds. In "To the Indifferent Women" she denounced as incomplete the kind of feminism that ignored women in poverty, denounced peace-seeking that sought good for one's own family while others suffered. She instead advocated that only with peace for all would peace be real.

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Share Flipboard Email. Jone Johnson Lewis has a Master of Divinity, and is a humanist clergy member and certified transformational coach. She has been involved in the women's movement since the late s. Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Living life in peace. We, who lie here, have nothing more to pray. To all your praises we are deaf and blind. We may not ever know if you betray Our hope, to make earth better for mankind. Each of you a bordered country, Delicate and strangely made proud, Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore, currents of debris upon my breast. Yet, today I call you to my riverside, If you will study war no more. Come, clad in peace and I will sing the songs The Creator gave to me when I And the tree and stone were one. And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Then from each black, accursed mouth The cannon thundered in the South, And with the sound The carols drowned Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent The hearth-stones of a continent, And made forlorn The households born Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Listen to the words of wisdom, Listen to the words of warning, From the lips of the Great Spirit, From the Master of Life, who made you! Why then will you hunt each other? He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die, And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him how would Hitler have condemned them at Dachau? Without him Caesar would have stood alone. He's the one who gives his body as the weapon of the war, And without him all this killing can't go on. The beginning of the poem:. When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.

Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. To look up at the blue summer sky; to see the sun sink slowly beyond the line of the horizon; to watch the worlds come twinkling into view, first one by one, and the myriads that no man can count, and lo!

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If people were universally cheerful, there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and morality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts. Good, pleasure, ease, content! Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Happy the man. Both are forces of nature. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.


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Sternberg, M. Rejoice about the sun, moon, flowers, and sky.

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Rejoice about the food you have to eat. Rejoice about the body that houses your spirit. Rejoice about the fact that you can be a positive force in the world around you. Rejoice about the love that is around you. If you want to be happy, commit to making your life one of rejoicing. Oh yeah! Pierpoint, For the Beauty of the Earth.

Francis of Assissi. Your every-day mind - that is the Way! We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming?

We can put our hands together, palm to palm, settling here on the last leaf of our brief flight, and bow to the wonder of it. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed to us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing, or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts?

In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing. Dogs, cats, or chimpanzees do not, so far as we can tell, increase their wisdom, their information, their control over their environment from one generation to the next. Human beings do.

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The cultural accomplishments of the ages, the invention of cooking, of weapons, of writing, of printing, of methods of building, of games and amusements, of means of transportation, and the discoveries of all the arts and sciences come to us as free gifts from the dead. These gifts, which none of us has done anything to earn, offer us not only the opportunity for a richer life than any of our forebears enjoyed but also the opportunity to add to the sum total of human achievement by our own contributions, however small.

Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action , , p. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final goodbye. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. It has a way of keeping you on your knees.

Be grateful for the growing trees, the roses soon to bloom, The tenderness of kindly hearts that shared your days of gloom; Be grateful for the morning dew, the grass beneath your feet, The soft caresses of your babes and all their laughter sweet. Acquire the grateful habit, learn to see how blest you are, How much there is to gladden life, how little life to mar! And what if rain shall fall today and you with grief are sad; Be grateful that you can recall the joys that you have had.

The world delights in a garden Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy. Fog lifted early.