Sadness

The idea is not to divert sadness, but to give it a context from life other than what is making you sad.  Just as ginger can lose it's bitterness when baked in bread, sadness can be leavened by other life.  When feeling the sharpness of being sad or hurt, it helps to take new things in.  This pours the water of life on the fire of the heart.   Your sadness is the paint.  You must find the canvas.  Mark Nepo

Your Heart

The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument.
Our sadness and fear come from being
Out of tune with love.

Hafiz

Religiousness

What

Do sad people have in common?

It seems

They have all built a shrine 

To the past.

And often go there

And do a strange wail and

Worship

What is the beginning of 

Happiness?

It is to stop being so religious

Like

That.

Hafiz

Blame

THE SAD GAME

Blame

Keeps the sad game going.

It keeps stealing all your wealth

Giving it to an imbecile with

No financial skills.

Dear one.

Wise

Up.

Hafiz

So Much Happiness

So Much Happiness




It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.

With sadness there is something to rub against,

a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.

When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up,

something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change.



But happiness floats.

It doesn't need you to hold it down.

It doesn't need anything.

Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing,

and disappears when it wants to.

You are happy either way.

Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house

and now live over a quarry of noise and dust

cannot make you unhappy.

Everything has a life of its own,

it too could wake up filled with possibilities

of coffee cake and ripe peaches,

and love even the floor which needs to be swept,

the soiled linens and scratched records…..



Since there is no place large enough

to contain so much happiness,

you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you

into everything you touch. You are not responsible.

You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit

for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it,

and in that way, be known.



Naomi  Shihab Nye

Feeling

"Feeling is life and death at the same time."  Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sadness

"Sadness is not the opposite of happiness.  The opposite of happiness is a closed heart.  Happiness is a heart so open and so soft and expansive that it can hold all the emotions in a cradle of openness."  Elizabeth Lesser

Happiness

"You may get to the point where you realize that if you want happiness, you have to accept profoundly and honestly the sadness that waits at every turn."  Unknown