The frontiers of the Ignorance shall recede,
More and more souls shall enter into light,
Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear
And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame
And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight
And human wills tune to the divine will,
These separate selves the Spirit's oneness feel,
These senses of heavenly sense grow capable,
The flesh and nerves of a strange ethereal joy
And mortal bodies of immortality.

A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell
And take the charge of breath and speech and act
And allthe thoughts shall be a glow of suns
And every feeling a celestial thrill

Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come
Lighting the chambers of the slumbering mind;
A sudden bliss shall run through every limb
And nature with amightier Presence fill.

Thus shall the earth open to divinity
And common natures feel the wide uplift,
Illumine common acts with the Spirit's ray
And meet the deity in common things.

Nature shall live to manifest secret God,
The Spirit shall take up the human play,
This earthly life become the life divine.

From 'Savitri' By Sri Aurobindo

A Start
Each day, I promise myself not to try to
solve all my life problems at once-nor
shall I expect you to do so;
Starting each day, I shall try to learn
something new about me and
about you and about the world I live in, so that I may
continue to experience all things as if they
had been newly born;
Starting each day I shall remember to
communicate my joy as well as my despair,
so that we can know each other better;
Starting each day, I shall remind myself to
really listen to you and to try to hear your
point of view and to discover the least-
threatening way of giving you mine,
remembering that we are both growing and
changing in a hundred different ways;
Starting each day, I shall remind myself that I
am a human being and not demand
perfection of you until I am prefect,
so you're safe;
Starting each day, I shall try to be more
aware of the beautiful things in our world-
I'll look at the flowers, I'll look at the birds,
I'll look at the children, I'll feel the cool
breezes, I'll eat good food-and I'll share
these things with you;
Starting each day, I shall remind myself to
reach out and touch you, gently, with my
words, my eyes and with my fingers, because
I don't want to miss feeling you;
Starting each day, I shall dedicate myself
again to the process of being a lover-and then
see what happens;
You know, I'm really convinced that if you
were to define love, the only word big
enough to engulf it all would be "life"-
LOVE IS LIFE-in all its aspects....And if
you miss love, you miss life!
Please don't
-Leo Buscaglia