Verses that I have found super supportive during challenging times
Here are some of the words that I have used and recommended to my client to hold oneself as we move through this global change together.
Suggestion:
Choose whichever verse resonates within you.
It is best worked with for at least two weeks daily, ideally at the same time you choose to sit.
Observe how the words move through your Thinking and Feeling bodies, gifting you new realisations or questions.
In time, you may notice their health-inspiring aspects.
All the best.
My Favourite :)
Morning Verse
When I think light, my soul shines,
When my soul shines, the earth is a star,
When the earth is a star, then I am, a true human being.
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Evening Verse
I am, a true human being
When the earth is a star
The earth is a star, when my soul shines
My soul shines, when I think light.
~Herbert Hahn
Waldorf school verses for 'children', of all ages :
Warm Our Hearts
Warm our hearts, oh sun, and give
Light that we may daily live.
Growing as we ought to be,
True and good and strong and free.
O Golden Sun
O golden sun so great and bright
Warms the world with all it’s might
It makes the dark earth green and fair
Attends each thing with ceaseless care
Oh may each deed throughout the day
May everything we do and say
Be bright and strong and true
O golden sun light you.
Our Group (by David Darcy)
A large and lovely land are we
With stars above and flowing seas
With rocks and trees and birds and beasts,
With far and near and great and least
With houses strong to keep us warm
And safe from snow and rain and storm
With friends on every side around
Full of love we stand our ground.
In the event of restlessness, anxiety, fear :
"I bear calm within myself, I bear within myself
The forces which strengthen me.
I want to fill myself
With the warmth of these forces,
I want to pervade myself
With the power of my will.
And I want to feel
How calm spreads
Through all my being
When I strengthen myself
To find calm as The force within me
Through the power of my striving".
- Rudolf Steiner GA 268
To care for breathing and warmth, overcoming external isolation through a relationship with the world :
"In my heart
Shines the power of the sun
In my soul
The warmth of the world is at work.
I want to breath
The power of the sun
I want to feel
The warmth of the world.
Let the power of the sun fill me
Let the warmth of the world penetrate me.
- Rudolf Steiner GA 268
To empower oneself :
"Spirit Triumphant!
Flame through the impotence of faltering, fainthearted souls!
Burn up selfishness,
kindle compassion,
so that selflessness,
the lifestream of humanity,
may flow as the wellspring
of spiritual rebirth!"
— Rudolf Steiner
For the care of the relationship with light and the sun :
"When I look into the sun
Its light tells me radiantly
Of the spirit which mercifully
Prevails through cosmic beings.
Sun, bearer of radiance,
The power of your light in matter
Conjures life out of the boundless riches
Of the depths of the earth.
When I feel into my heart,
The spirit speaks its own words
Of the person whom it
Loves through all time and eternity.
Heart, bearer of the soul,
The power of your light in the spirit
Conjures life out of the human being's
Boundlessly deep inwardness.
I can see, in looking upwards,
In the sun's bright sphere
The mighty cosmic heart.
I can feel, looking inwards,
In the heart's warm life:
The ensouled sun of human beings".
— Rudolf Steiner
"The human being is a bridge Between the past and future existence. The present is a moment; moment as bridge.
Spirit grown to soul in matter's husk Comes from the past. Soul growing to spirit as seed encased Journeys toward the future. Grasp future things through past ones Hope for evolving things through what has evolved.
So grasp existence in evolving growth; So grasp what will be in what exists".
(Rudolf Steiner to Dr. Ita Wegman in December, 1920).
The Sufi Invocation
Toward the One,
the Perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty,
the Only Being,
United with All the Illuminated Souls,
Who form the Embodiment of the Master,
the Spirit of Guidance.
The Prayers of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
(Written out as they are commonly spoken in present times at gatherings)