Now let’s share some quotes from masters of old, like Chaucer and Shakespeare, just to name a few. Each verse they wrote had color and rhyme. Now, these men of old knew their being selves inside. Chaucer recorded this gem of words in the 1300s: “One eare it heard, at the other out it went” (The Canterbury Tales l.1, 522). Profound, don’t you think? This sounds like he experienced a few good souls who had big holes between their ears. Yes, things do seem to have gone in one ear and out the other when trying to retrieve wisdom of old. And what about Shakespeare’s quote, “What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!” (Hamlet, Price of Denmark, Act II, scene II). Now one thing is for sure: these masters of old, with their words, did transcend time all the way to our time.

Now let’s look at feathers; they are a sign of angels they say. Who are your spirit guides, anyway? Could we imagine a bear, a snake, and a wolf maybe? Have you looked into the eyes of nature? A red-tailed hawk, the beauty, the power, can they share some of this with you? These living, breathing perfections come from our hearts too. In this same way, our pets manifest our purist of nature back to us. These unbridled creatures will be glad to do just the same. Now you may ask, “Well, how do I bridge this extreme existence?” Maybe take a date in the woods, tune out all that glares, and soon you will see the fine-tuning of energies.

Kuan Yin is our “Mother Mary” of the east. She sits with her children, our Hindu of kin. These ancients of spirit know their stones by the touch, their color of days to reflect the energies we store in our aura; they equally stand ready to teach all our mantras and meditations. Yes, the ancient of days can evolve in us too. It can be consoling to know they will be there to welcome our minds home once again when the paradigm to each of our worlds does shift back to that talked-about Zen. Now, Chaucer and Shakespeare had their quotable quotes. To them, life’s parables were timeless indeed, from Shakespeare’s, “All the world’s a stage” (As You Like It, Act II Scene VII) to Chaucer’s, “And for to se, and eek for to be seye” (The Canterbury Tales, The Wif of Bathers Prologue, line 6134) were just a few of these timeless teachers’ symbols of wisdom represented by the letters they wrote and spoke. These men are our masters to anchor earth’s presence. These spirits of old have made a timeless home in their efforts to establish welcoming arms for those who desire to be free with thee.