What is the soul, and were does it really lie? What is a spiritual experience and what really is spirituality? I often ponder on these...This is the result...I would like you to also share your own experience with spirituality- let's play -'spirituality


Let Us Talk About the Soul

Let us talk about the soul
Delve deep into ourselves
Realize our real self:
What we are; from where we come?
What we really want from life
For what we really do strive
What is our real potential?
Where does our happiness lie...?

Expression of our inner selves
Discovering of the mysteries
That we hold deep within
Unknown to our own selves;
When we sit and contemplate
About our lives, ideals and ways
We come to realize,
What we are
Why we are...

When I'm happy and satisfied,
I think my soul is at peace
With my spirit, with my life
My spiritual dimension is
In unison and not at variance with
My heart and my soul...

Material needs, intellectual needs,
Need of love and understanding
When are in complete harmony
With each other and ourselves
A balance is acquired in life
between our outer and inner life...

This is spiritual and fulfilling;
Rising above the carnal needs
Finding joy in little things that we
Experience everyday in life:

Joy at the first ray of light-
Dispelling the gloom of the night-
Are like releasing one self
from the depth of ignorance...

Listen to the chirruping birds
Smell the Jasmine, Queen-o-the-Night
Sit near the flowing river,
Calmly at sunrise,
Watch the waves make music
Sunrays bathing the waters golden
With tender, caring delight...

Snow-peaks, oceans deep,
Beaches vast and green fields,
All fill our souls with a feeling
Delicate and sublime...
The spirit itself responds
To the Nature's vast sway

If that is not the Soul,
If that is not Spirituality-
What then is our inner reality-
Pure soul- enriched and satisfied
That is the actual spiritual life!
We are striving for this reality,
Only, we don't realize,
And
When we do,
We find a new
Spiritual dimension within ourselves
With our lives, with our heart
And with our soul...

My poetry and my creativity,
Is my food for the soul!
It is elating!
It is spiritual!
It is divine!


Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright©: Zoya Zaidi

Photo: Sunset in the Monsoon in Aligarh
Pic. by and ©: Zoya Zaidi




Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2007-09-01 at 19:22

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MAXreturns
I always thought that there is one heaven, you know what did i come up with after all these years ( well im only 21 hehe), god made a small heaven in earth but not in one place in many places. The sea for example is a part of heaven, i could stand infront of the sea at dawn or sunset every single day, talking and arguing and solving our problems together. I talk to birds too they chant for me when ever i am down or feeling so low. Skies are like witnesses for what is happening they is a record up there recording every sinle foot pace we make. Well as for where are from i think we are from mother earth, born and raised by joyous souls and creative minds and loving hearts. I think a soul is the control system in our self. It works with our heart and mind in harmony it works with our self concoius and our self understanding. The soul is like a baby it needs only good food to grow, beauty, love, care and many other ingredients for the souls recipe. I took the recipe from my grandfather which he took from his. You know i always see that my soul can always take knowledge love and care and it is never enough, like a spongue my soul is always hungry for passion of words, food and nature.
Anyways i liked the your poem very much...

HUGS

~MAX
2007-09-05


Amanda K
Great words, full of wisdome.
Sometimes we are taken by life to nameless shores in short when we don give time to realize our mission and be with ourselves frank.

well-done
2007-09-01


kath
yes, those moments are sacred .. a very nice write and I am inspired to follow the line you have opened here

love & hugs
katherine
2007-09-01


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
A good ans interesting poem , a poem to give reason to think. '' to thy self be true '' sprung to my mind. Be true to the humanity with in us , beleave in the humanity in others. Then you are great with in the inner spirit,

All the best , Ken :)
2007-09-01


M Heathcote
Hi ((Zoya))

Beautiful thoughts nicely expressed!

Pure soul- enriched and satisfied

Time glimmers like rain
in the clouds restitution
it reflects the invisible
amassing the infinite!

Like vapor on a mirror
We are all here seen together
Condensing in a liquid tear
Rolling in the eye of god...
2007-09-01