"A Place Called Utopia" is an evocative collection of 58 heartfelt poems that echo the profound yearning to liberate ourselves from a corrupt and power-driven society, beckoning us towards a realm where love and compassion reign supreme. Despite its age, the concept of "Utopia," coined by Thomas More in the 16th century, remains an ever-relevant force that nourishes our aspirations for genuine freedom and a brighter future. This anthology embodies the enduring vitality of this ideal, revit...

‘A Feeling Called Hope’ is a collection of 42 poems and 16 illustrations by the children of Future Hope, India and GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai.

This book is a collection of 161 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Buddha:“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”“What we think, we become.”“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”“The past is already gone; the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.”...

A new baby gives a fifty-three-year-old father a new lease of life. It also sharpens his ears to the unmeaning cruelty of friends and strangers. One story among the millions of aches and hopes that make up the teeming metropolis.

The soul's dwelling in the material body deludes it so much that it thinks, 'I can live only on material food, can stand only on earth, can enjoy only material surroundings. Without these I am nowhere, I am nothing.' There is a Persian saying: 'Do not build a house on the ground of another.' This is what the soul does. Whatever it sees, the consciousness recognizes as itself. Its purity makes it reflect whatever is before it, and then it thinks, 'This is I,' just as clear water reflects ou...

My own spiritual journey started slowly, like a locomotive drawing heavy freight. But gradually I picked up steam. Finally I reached the destination, a rustic country station, "The Village of The Enlightened." On the platform, a kind but stern Stationmaster instructs all who would live there:"Please realize, however our travels differ, we are all on similar routes. We give our wanderings different names, depending on our faith or lack of faith. But they are seldom more than names.

This book is a collection of 225 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Laozi:“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”“He who speaks does not know; he who knows does not speak.”“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”“Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, ...

The old Greek saying Gnothi seauton, know thyself, is a fine piece of advice, and self-knowledge is absolutely necessary to any candidate for progress. And yet we must beware lest our necessary self-examination should degenerate into morbid introspection, as it often does with some of the best of our students...-Charles Webster Leadbeater was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Chu...

A compilation of forty-nine poems spanning a decade, Footprint of an Elephant, is a journey of the human path, different for each walker but containing a common human thread. Penetrating beyond the thin and superficial veil of ethnicity, creed, color, culture, and the like, Footprint of an Elephantwith its three sections: Awakening, Uprising, and Conquestis an exploration of one walkers path.

In Love’s Glory, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey presents 108 stunning short poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. Working from translations in various languages and drawing on two decades of studying Rumi’s work, Harvey’s “re-creations” are arranged in a dance around crucial mystical themes: nondual bliss, ordeal, ecstatic recognition, revelation, and gratitude.“These short poems by Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, humanity’s most passionate and exalted mystic poet,...

Opposite poles of the magnet same.One rests in the north,The other is in the south.Quiet eyes with the laughter loud,Encompassing a calmed soulAs well as a nosy heart.Her mind, a battlefield.Her bod, a shrine.With the rings of fireAlong its depths,She is an ocean.That's at outburst.

Compassion can be an instrument for profound healing—bringing one to a new sense of wholeness and understanding. We all make mistakes. Compassion recognizes suffering and moves heaven and earth to alleviate it. Measure all things by truth, honor and love— love as compassion that does not indulge another but holds on to that one and compels that one to realize selfhood and in so doing to have the rejoicing of an accomplishment all their own.