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“Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye

"Gate A-4" By Naomi Shihab Nye Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: “If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately.” Well— one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.

Wisdom2be 3/25/26 Wisdom2be 3/25/26

"If You Love, Love Openly" — Zen Story

Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master.

Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain.

Several monks secretly fell in love with her.

Wisdom2be 3/10/26 Wisdom2be 3/10/26

John 3:16 — Aramaic Translation

John 3:16

For Unity so loved Diversity,

all the worlds of form,

that it brought you a child of Unity…

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“The Scapegoat” by Greg Oosterhouse

There once was a man who lived an upright life. He loved His fellow man, He was slow to anger. He put Himself last, and never was one to cause strife. His life was lived humbly, He even was born in a manger.

SOURCE: Poem Hunter

Wisdom2be 1/12/26 Wisdom2be 1/12/26

Two Monks and Silence — Unknown

Two monks, walked together during a long journey home. After hours of wandering in silence the younger monk finally spoke. “Master”, he said, “I have been practicing silence as you’ve taught me…

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The Master Carpet Weaver — inspired by Corrie ten Boom’s poem “Life is but a Weaving”

There was a a master carpet weaver so gifted that people would come from all over the world to buy his hand stitched, stunningly beautiful carpets.

For about a year his six-year-old granddaughter, who often pestered him to let her weave a carpet with him finally proclaimed, “I know how to do this!”

Wisdom2be 12/8/25 Wisdom2be 12/8/25

"The River" (excerpt) by Herman Hesse

I am only a ferryman and it is my task to take people across this river. I have taken thousands of people across and to all of them my river has been nothing but a hindrance on their journey. They have travelled for money and business, to weddings and on pilgrimages; the river has been in their way and the ferryman was there to take them quickly across the obstacle.

Wisdom2be 9/22/25 Wisdom2be 9/22/25

“Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know what kindness really is

you must lose things,

feel the future dissolve in a moment

like salt in a weakened broth.

PLEASE SUPPORT MS. NYE’S WONDERFUL WORK

Wisdom2be 9/6/25 Wisdom2be 9/6/25

Maurice Frydman Poem (Title Unknown)

I am at the end of the tether
and can’t break the cord

All my going ahead
is a deceitful dream,

All my thinking not true,
all my feeling not pure,

Wisdom2be 8/26/25 Wisdom2be 8/26/25

Love (III) - by George Herbert

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
          Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
          From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
          If I lacked anything.

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