Life’s Forge
It is in life’s transforming forge
where both love and suffering
burn red hot
that trust in the Spirit
is strengthened and renewed.
© 2015 Dennis Ference
Spirit
Standing Naked
It is only when we have known
the limitations and guile of the ego
that we can stand naked in the Spirit
and open ourselves to the assistance
of divine inspiration and grace.
© 2015 Dennis Ference
Love of Your Life
When you are awake
to the Divine within,
the love of your life
will help you to see
that Love is your life.
© 2015 Dennis Ference
Life’s Course
If I dismiss
the Oneness of All
as fantasy
or a mystic’s
dreamy vision
my life’s course
is more apt
to reflect
mostly self-
serving
decisions.
© 2014 Dennis Ference
For Poets and All Writers
You ask whether your verses are good. You ask me. You have asked others before….You compare them to other poems….I beg you to give up all of that. You are looking outward, and that above all else you should not do now….There is only one single way. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you to write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. This above all else—ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple, “I must,” then build your life according to this necessity; your life even in its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it.
From Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
All Paths
Khalil Gibran wrote in
The Prophet:
Say not, “I have found the one true path of the Spirit!”
Say rather, “I have met the Spirit walking on my path.”
For the Spirit walks on all paths.
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