‘.... no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.’” —Sukarno

‘no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.’

 —Sukarno

 

“The world can be a brutal place ----- —Unknown ------- AKSHR

“The world can be a brutal place 

– please don’t let it steal your smile away.”

 

 

“Smile in the mirror. --- —Yoko Ono ----- AKSHR

“Smile in the mirror. 

Do that every morning 

and you’ll start to see a 

big difference in your life.” 

—Yoko Ono

 

“Let my soul smile through my heart and ------ —Paramahansa Yogananda ----- AKSHR

“Let my soul smile through my heart and 

my heart smile through my eyes, 

that I may scatte rich smiles in sad hearts.” 

—Paramahansa Yogananda

there's someone thinking about you... ---- Unknown ____ AKSHR

They said that if you are unable to sleep,

 it's because there's someone thinking about you...

surely that person misses you. 

That's why if you can't sleep, sorry, I can't help it. 

 

I'll look for that one reason to fight for you. ____ Unknown ___ AKSHR

No matter how many times I get hurt because of you, 

I won't leave you. Because even if I have a hundred reasons to leave you, 

I'll look for that one reason to fight for you. 

 

Replacing it with a piece of his. _____ Unknown ____ AKSHR

Find that guy that will pick up every piece of your shattered heart 

& put it back together; Replacing it with a piece of his. 

and all my desires ripen into fruits of love. ____ TAGORE ____ AKSHR

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, 

and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

I will worship him placing at his feet the treasure of my heart. ___ TAGORE ____ AKSHR

I will worship him placing at his feet the treasure of my heart.

 

We are too poor to be late. _____ TAGORE ____ AKSHR

We have no time to lose, 

and having no time we must scramble for a chances. 

We are too poor to be late.

 

thus casting coloured shadows on thy radiance---such is thy maya. TAGORE .... AKSHR

 

That I should make much of myself and turn it on all sides, 

thus casting coloured shadows on thy radiance---such is thy maya.

If I am an idolatrous heretic, it is from you ____ Quratulain Tahira ____ AKSHR

If I am an idolatrous heretic, it is from you

If am a sinning deviant, it is from you. 

 

Where am I, and where your description, O honored one? ____ Quratulain Tahira ____ AKSHR

Where am I, and where your description, O honored one?

Since obliterating nothingness becomes [all] descriptions of the essence of the ancient. 

 

Illumined by your light is church and sanctuary ____ Quratulain Tahira ____ AKSHR

Illumined by your light is church and sanctuary

You are [indeed] the manifestation of the essence of the face of the ancient. 

 

To each people has there turned a guide ____ Quratulain Tahira _____ AKSHR

To each people has there turned a guide

The [point of the] worship [which] they indicate is you. 

 

From you the cause of God has become exalted ---- Quratulain Tahira ____ AKSHR

From you the cause of God has become exalted

The majesty of gods have become manifest. 

 

Hidden from all ----- Rumi ---- AKSHR

 

Hidden from all

I will speak to you without words.

No one but you will hear my story

Even if I tell it in the middle of the crowd. 

TRANSITION – M. ATHAR TAHIR -- AKSHR

 

It would be picturesque to go

Against a marigold sky up in smoke

With glee-inflamed logs, a Brahmin’s heedless

Mantra and stench-killing incense.

 

So release oneself

To another incarnation, to be cast

In a final handful to

A river clogged with washed out sins.

 

Or one could slide into

An incinerator and come out packed

In a box, to be forgotten in an attic

Or disposed hurriedly of in a plot.

 

It would be colorful to go

Gonged down long streets with wailing

Relatives in sacks and gaudy paper houses,

Cardboard cars by the yard

 

And money in wads,

Paper pagodas to light joss-sticks in,

And all luxuries

Fire could burn to another world.

To be left for vultures to pick

At leisure, leaving only

A shovel full of bones on the tower

Would be silent perpetuation.

Or one could credit All to an archaeologist.

For millennium’s stand almost like oneself,

Painted, attended, surrounded by serpent richness.

 

But the cleanest, cheapest way

Is to be buried where nothing irks,

Where grass covers, the berry sends

Down roots and the worm world works.

My Luve Is Like A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns ____ AKSHR

“O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, 

That’s newly sprung in June.”

 

Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez ---- AKSHR

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, 

to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

 

The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James ---- AKSHR

It has made me better loving you …

 it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter.

I used to want a great many things before, 

and to be angry that I did not have them.

Theoretically, I was satisfied.

 I flattered myself that I had limited my wants.

But I was subject to irritation; 

I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire.

Now I really am satisfied, 

because I can’t think of anything better.”

The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James