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    Shining Through: Inner Light Quotes and Poems
    Shining Through: Inner Light Quotes and Poems
    Shining Through: Inner Light Quotes and Poems
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    Shining Through: Inner Light Quotes and Poems

    By Ben Gerritsen

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    In the Mahabharata, a Takshaa asks Tudishtira, What is the greatest miracle? Yudishtira replies, The greatest miracle is that we, although always surrounded by death and decay, live as if we are immortal. What a very profound answer that is, we live as if we are immortal while we can drop dead in the next minute. Without the inward realization that life and death are just the movement of Love we are bound to repeat the same dreams and nightmares over and over again. That the poems in Shining Through may guide you to the Love within, the Love you are in The Beloved. That is the poets true wish.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJan 9, 2012
    ISBN9781477163429
    Shining Through: Inner Light Quotes and Poems
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    Ben Gerritsen

    Ben Gerritsen was born in a village, called Linne in the South of the Netherlands. As a young child, he was raised in a Traditional home, even at the early stage he was already puzzled by the meaning of life. His searching and seeking for this meaning intensified at the age of eighteen. In his searching he met several Eastern and Western saints and sages who gave him some direction. At the age of 32 he began an inward journey. Where he had an awakening and full realization of the “Self”. Since then he began to write poetry in this book is over 30 years old.

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      Book preview

      Shining Through - Ben Gerritsen

      The Eternal Dance

      Come join the eternal dance,

      The Beloved said to me

      I heard his voice in silence

      and merely let it be.

      I followed him to a dwelling place

      that is not here nor there.

      I took the lessons from the heart

      by his attending care

      And then I started dancing

      The dance became my aim

      The Beloved my true leadsman

      my guidance and my flame.

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      Life is flitting

      Life is flying

      Only in love it is not dying.

      Touched

      The wind was dancing in the trees

      The day was bound to die

      A bird was singing his last song

      while clouds were passing by

      And in that precious moment

      my soul began to glow

      reaching out for the Beloved

      to reap what it did sow

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      Life is in motion in every breath we breathe.

      Hidden Blessing

      There is a hidden Blessing

      that’s all you

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