HELPINGS OTHERS

Developing the skills to have a steady mind, a persistent hope, a compassionate heart keeps our lamp lit and makes it available to another in their hour of need.

“the soul within every being is lit out of the unknown realms and is kept alive by unseen helpers . the dreams deepen and the need for support become more painful the soul can draw from the light of hope, the compassion, the determination that other souls have been graced with the power to develop.  At a spirit level we know where our needs can be met and we know where we would like to be of help.  Without meeting or knowing each other the helper and the helped participate in exchange of light - when the shadow falls it may be as a result of the need of another soul who is drawing from our light


Light having found a way into us extends its rays far beyond what we can imagine and has the power to illumine the darkest passages another soul might be going through. 


When we let gloom overcome us our bright ray gets temporarily hindered

SOUL

The soul is a midnight blossom which opens its leaves in dream, and its perfect bloom is unfolded only where another sun shines in another heaven; there it feels what celestial dews descend on it and what influences draw it up to its divine archetype.
Imaginations and reveries

George W Russell (AE)
[April 10, 1867--July 17, 1935]
TOB 3.38pm  (glen)

Irish poet, novelist, painter, economist, journalist, and editor; gave up painting in his twenties to concentrate on writing; close friend of Yeats who involved him in Irish nationalism movement and interested him in mystical theosophy which became an important element in much of his poetry; first volume of poetry Homeward: Songs of the Way published in 1894; edited Irish Homestead from 1906 to 1923 and its successor Irish Statesman from 1923 to 1930, periodicals which became the primary forum for his ideas on economic and political reform in Ireland; published two books on economic reform, Cooperation and Nationality in 1912 and The National Being in 1916; wrote two novels, The Interpreters (1922) and The Avatars (1933); his Collected Poems published 1913, with a second edition in 1926; in 1932, published a prose commentary on his own poetry, Song and Its Fountains.

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“That is perfect. 
This is perfect. 
Perfect comes from perfect.
Take perfect from perfect, the remainder is perfect.
May peace and peace and peace be everywhere.”
– Eesha-upanishad

W.B. Yeats tells us that A.E. was 40 years quoting the Upanishads to him saying “he expressed in his ceaseless vague preoccupation with the East a need and curiosity of our times” 

Yeats with Shree Purohit Swami translated the Ten Principle Upanishads and gave the reason for doing it was due to the lack of an understandable text in English. He describes them as the “the oldest philosophical compositions of the world, compositions, not writings, for they were sung long before they were written down.”

  The Upanishad (literally means ‘at the feet of’)are the wisdom or doctrine attached to the VEDAS .  The quoted prayer is taken from the first chapter: