The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
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Maya Angelou: His Day is Done Tribute

Beautiful tribute to Nelson Mandela by  Maya Angelou read by Botlhale Boikanyo.

And So We Must Remember (peace poem)

And So We Must Remember

My little boy wandered up to me
And asked to go for a walk,
And while we strolled hand in hand,
He asked me if we could talk.

He asked me what Remembrance meant
On this day we celebrate;
That at school they’d marched, had two minutes of silence,
But that he just couldn’t relate.

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Chasms: by Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes (peace poem)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Writer and activist Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes lights up the stage with a powerful poem about hope, truth and the space between who we are and who we want to be.

I Bargained With Life for a Penny (peace poem)

A short and poignant poem by Jessie B. Rittenhouse that appeared in Napolean Hill’s classic book, Think and Grow Rich.

I Bargained With Life for a Penny

I bargained with Life for a penny,

And Life would pay no more,

However I begged at evening

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Gratitude Prayer by Napoleon Hill (Happy Thanksgiving!)

I give thanks daily, not for mere riches, but for wisdom with which to recognize, embrace, and properly use the great abundance of riches I now have at my command. I have no enemies because I injure no man for any cause, but I try to benefit all with whom I come in contact by teaching them the way to enduring riches. I have more material wealth than I need because I am free from greed and covet only the material things I can use while I live.
~Gratitude Prayer by Napoleon Hill
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

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In Honor of Maya Angelou (peace poem)

This post first appeared in the Modern Day Mastery blog here.

In honor of the life of celebrated poet and activist, Maya Angelou, who we’ve featured many times in our blogs, here is one of her most iconic poems, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. She passed yesterday at the age of 86, and her family issued this statement: “She lived a life as a teacher, activist, artist and human being. She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace.”

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Time of Your Life (New Year’s poem)

There is no better way for us here at 10 Million Clicks For Peace to extend our wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year than sharing this wonderful poem by the author of The Dash, Linda Ellis. Make it a stellar 2014!

Time of Your Life

Do you reflect upon the years gone by
as you prepare for yet one more,
with promises and resolutions
that you have made before?

Do memories of people and places
once as sharp as any knife
now blend in bits and pieces
in a kaleidoscope of life?

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Best of Blog: My Prayer for Peace

Whereas the wounded self can never do the work
of the self healed, I pray that God will give us guidance
and never forsake us, yes, even though the world around us
should crumble and should quake;

I pray for a kinder day, that reason should prevail,
that we should recover and recoup from wounds too severe
for mere mortals to contemplate and to bear;

I pray for peace in our homes and in our lands,
for the Mercy of all Creation to shower down upon us,
that our worst of days and our best of days should be difficult
to differentiate one from the other;

I pray for the Earth, the Mother of us all,
no more to be neglected , assaulted, and assailed; Read more

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