Daily Signet

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Last summer, sitting in the garden, the smells of fifty different roses overwhelmed me, blasted my mind and senses to shards. I saw and felt at the same time, myself as ecstatic, dancing sparkles of light through every cell, in every molecule, at the root of every atom. Glowing, pulsing, vibrating points and strings. And the roses were also filled with dancing light, and the pebbles and even the bindweed. And the sparrows and the bread we left for them—all filled with ecstatic, vibrating, dancing, sparkling.

Ben Leichtling

On This Day…

Baha'l Ascension of Abdul Baha, second of the faith's three great leaders

William Blake born in 1757 in London, England: poet, painter, print maker and seminal figure in the history of poetry, writer and illustrator of The Book of Urizen, The Book of Thel and Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Died 8-12-1827

Alexander Blok born in 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia: lyrical poet emphasizing political themes, often alternating between hope and despair. When he lost his hope for the revolution, he wrote no poetry for three years - "my faith in the wisdom of humanity had failed." Became ill but forbidden to leave Russia for treatment, he died 8-7-1921
Quotes: "Only a person in love has the right to be called human." "Sense prevails over reason, but not the mind." "Work is what is written on the red flag of revolution."