Harmony

 “We are even closer to God than the fishes are to the ocean in which they live. The innermost being of man is the real being of God; man is always linked with God. If he could only realize it, it is by finding harmony in his own soul that he finds communion with God. All meditation and contemplation are taught with this purpose: to harmonize one's innermost being with God, so that He is seeing, hearing, thinking through us, and our being is a ray of His light.” Hazrat Inayat Khan

Kabir said “ I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.”

Pause a moment – feel the flowing current of  God in which you live.

Deep in your chest, a flame shines like a thousand suns.

The triumphant music pouring from that flame is your wake-up call: listen!

Without instrument or voice, heaven and earth join in that hymn of glory.

Tree and wind and mountain and sea join the chorus of stars and sky.

Listen with the ears of your heart and you cannot but hear that music.

With all your being, just sing that divine song!

O child of immortal bliss, stand tall and claim your heritage.

If you would know Grace, understand that everything is pervaded by the One .

Fill your days with beauty and joy, live fearlessly and totally in that harmony.

Thus will you be a light unto yourself and unto all creation.

“Thou art my all in all, O Lord!-the life of my life, the essence of essence;

In the three worlds I have none else but Thee to call my own.

Thou art my peace, my joy, my hope; Thou my support, my wealth, my glory;

Thou my wisdom and my strength.

Thou art my home, my place of rest; my dearest friend, my next of kin;

My present and my future, Thou; my heaven and my salvation.

Thou art my scriptures, my commandments; Thou art my ever gracious Guru;

Thou the Spring of my boundless bliss.

Thou art the Way, and Thou the Goal; Thou the adorable One, O Lord!

Thou art the Mother, tender-hearted; Thou the chastising Father;

Thou the Creator and Protector; Thou the Helmsman who dost steer

My craft across the sea of life.” 

A favorite hymn of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.