Shine On: Visions of Life. Betty Shine
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Название: Shine On: Visions of Life
Автор: Betty Shine
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Эзотерика
isbn: 9780007394180
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To write all the words
But what is a lifetime
If at last they are heard?
And I hope within the cover
You’ll discover
Inspirational lines
That will teach you how to survive.
How many times have we told our children, ‘At the end of the rainbow you will find a pot of gold’? This image captures the imagination and encourages us to strive for success. Many think that success is measured in material wealth, others think it is achieved by finding God, but Betty classed her pot of gold as knowledge in all things. The more knowledge we gain, the more understanding of life we have and the more we can help others.
Knowing ourselves is the first step. We all have two sides to our nature and sometimes that can be hard to face, but knowing this fact enables us to become more positive about ourselves and change if need be. A pot of gold is found only through pure hard work and determination, and for that you have to have courage.
I am a dreamer,
Who walks the corridors of light
That gives me life.
The mirrors that I see
Show other sides of me
And tell me who and what I am.
This truth is hard to take
But it brings a kind of ecstasy
In the knowledge that it brings.
We’re told we must never go
‘Where angels fear to tread’.
But in my dreams, I took that path
And found a pot of gold
That others hadn’t dared to hold.
I had a choice, to take it in my hands
And walk away, or take a simple scroll
Which held the mysteries and the vibes
That the ‘ancients’ had withheld
And had guarded with their lives.
The choice was mine and mine alone.
I do not know what choice I made
For in an instant I was wide awake.
But I do not have material things
But a gift of ‘knowing’
That I know cannot be bought or sold
For a pot of gold.
There were so many poets that influenced Betty’s life, and one special to her was W.H. Auden. He wrote poems and cabaret lyrics in the thirties including ‘Funeral Blues’ which was read in Four Weddings and a Funeral. He also wrote a libretto for the Benjamin Britten opera Paul Bunyan. He was a great scholar and always wrote about social issues, and Betty always felt an affinity toward him. Auden died in 1973, leaving three posthumous poems to be printed after his death. Betty did the same with the poems in this book – I am sure they both have much to talk about in the dimension beyond!
Will you accept
From the mind of a child
A simple concept
That people inept
Unable to fathom
How to regain
A world without pain
Should relinquish their tasks
To alleviate anguish
And fear of the past
That was nurtured by hate
So that we may restore –
Not kill and deface –
Our World?
This beautiful place.
How many of us have experienced ‘love at first sight?’ When love touches a human soul it changes it forever. The instant attraction, the change of energy that cascades through us, it is truly an experience not to be missed. There seems to be instant recognition, rapport and waves of energy that pass between two people, a feeling of ‘Oneness’. When it happens you are helpless, you lose all rational thinking, the ‘love’ takes over. Many believe that they connect emotionally with another person because perhaps they have known them in a previous life.
With ‘love at first sight’, we experience romance, something sometimes forgotten. One day it will happen to you.
Sparks, like stars blowing in the wind,
And a light that glows, as our emotions overflow,
Can only be the beginning,
And not the end.
There is no day, no night; this is love at first sight.
And as the earth moves beneath our feet,
And the world spins around, we hold on,
For we are but mortals walking on hallowed ground.
There is no care of who we are, or have been.
We have emerged, as though from sleep,
Like butterflies from a chrysalis.
In an instant we understand,
It is the lightning strike that is only given once
In any lifetime.
There is no day, no night, this is love at first sight,
There is no beginning, and can be no end,