TheFourSeasons• Show poetry

I've been writing for nearly four and a half years now. My style and subject matter have changed and evolved over that time, I hope I may further better my craft here on this site. Any critiques or comments you may have on my work are much appreciated. I first started writing poetry when I was sixteen.

Religion and spirituality are very important to me, I seek a union between all religions and creeds; and respect everyone's right to their own beliefs. I personally follow the teachings of the New Church, a reinterpretation of Christianity based upon the spiritual meaning of the Word which is drawn from the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Here are some quotes that I like:

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
- Rumi

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
- Rumi

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
- Alexander Smith

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare

Laughter is the language of the soul.
- Pablo Neruda

I see my path but I do not know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel.
- Rosalia De Castro

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato

In order to have peace we need justice, to have justice we need mercy, to have mercy we need love, to have love we need freedom.
- Noorunddeen Durkee

Behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
- Luke 17:21

The one who says heaven can only be experienced after you die has removed it and made it difficult to experience its qualities.
- Dr. Wilson Van Dusen

Spiritual illumination begins with the realization of as simple a thing as that the whole kingdom of God is already established within you, and for you to enjoy its blessings you have to find a way to bring it forth into expression.
- Joel S. Goldsmith

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

God permitted to every people something he forbade to others...[and] God sends a prophet to every people according to their own language.
- Nethanel ibn Fayyumi (a Yemenite Jewish theologian of the 12th century)

Do you see that city? Right now in that city there are old people dying and there are babies being born. There are people in the peak of health working out at the gym and people lying sick in hospital beds. There are people losing their jobs and people starting a new jobs. There are couples who are getting divorces and couples who are conceiving children. There are rich people living in big houses and homeless people living under bridges. There are Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews. There are blacks, whites, Asians, Indians, Mexicans, and so on. Some people are speaking English; some are speaking Spanish; some are speaking other languages. There is all that joy and sorrow, all those contrasts. And yet, from our perspective up here on the mountain, we see only a single, beautiful city. . . . That is how God sees the entire world.
- Rev. Frank Rose

You have achieved wisdom when you no longer have any concern about understanding what is true and good, but are willing and living it.
- Emanuel Swedenborg

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
- William Blake

With all this extra stressin
The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression
they punish the people that's askin questions
And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
Be grateful for blessings
Don't ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address
Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic
And when you get stranded
And things don't go the way you planned it
Dreamin of riches, in a position of makin a difference
Politicians and hypocrites, they don't wanna listen
If I'm insane, it's the fame made a brother change
It wasn't nuttin like the game
It's just me against the world
- Tupac
(From the song "Me Against the World")