Quote:
Originally Posted by dogsbody70
Yes Superman.
I wonder if you would say that this poem attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
runs along similar lines to the one you posted.
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
|
I didn't know this poem,
and read it for the first time,
yet I could feel the same taste too.
Both Oriental people and Western people may think the same thing, because we are all human-beings, whose power is very smaller than the nature (God).
Very very small, yet we can do something modest.