by Edward Carpenter






































































































Chicago Lake 2011














Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the
world,    and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds
in store.
All that you have within you, all that your heart
desires,
   all that your Nature so specially fits you for 
that or the    counterpart of it waits embedded in the great Whole, for
you.
    It will surely come to you.Yet equally surely not one moment before its appointed
time    will it come. All your crying and fever and reaching out
of
    hands will make no difference.
Therefore do not begin that game at all.Do not recklessly spill the waters of your mind
    in this direction and in that,
    lest you become like a spring lost and    dissipated in the desert.But draw them together into a little compass, and hold them    still, so still;
And let them become clear, so clear – so limpid, so mirror-like;at last the mountains and the sky shall glass themselves in    peaceful beauty,
and the antelope shall to descend to drink and to gaze at her    reflected image,
and the lion to quench his thirst,
and Love himself shall come and bend over and catch his    own likeness in you.                                   - New Zealand Prayer Book, pg. 157 (click below for MP3 file)

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