Here are a few poems I’ve come across lately that honour the human spirit and the divine spark in each of us. I hope they give you pause and that you can enter into their mystery and beauty.

Bhagavad Gita (10:35):

I am a magnificent hymn,

A sacred chant.

Rainer Maria Rilke:

I want to unfold.

I do not want to remain folded up anywhere,

because where I am still folded,

I am untrue.

William Blake:

For Mercy has a human heart,

Pity, a human face;

And Love, the human form divine,

And Peace, the human dress.

Walt Whitman:

To have the gag removed from one’s mouth!

To have the feeling today or any day I am sufficient as I am.