Puisi Paskah

Ulil Absar Abdala ― Puisi Paskah

Ia yang rebah, di pangkuan perawan suci, bangkit setelah tiga hari, melawan mati.
Ia yang lemah, menghidupkan harapan yang nyaris punah.
Ia yang maha lemah, jasadnya menanggungkan derita kita.
Ia yang maha lemah, deritanya menaklukkan raja-raja dunia.
Ia yang jatuh cinta pada pagi, setelah dirajam nyeri.
Ia yang tengadah ke langit suci, terbalut kain merah
kirmizi: "Cintailah aku!"

Mereka bertengkar tentang siapa yang mati di palang kayu.
Aku tak tertarik pada debat ahli teologi.
Darah yang mengucur itu lebih menyentuhku.
Saat aku jumawa dengan imanku, tubuh nyeri yang tergeletak di kayu itu, terus mengingatkanku:
Bahkan Ia pun menderita, bersama yang nista.

Muhammadku, Yesusmu, Krisnamu, Buddhamu, Konfuciusmu
mereka semua guru-guruku, yang mengajarku tentang keluasan dunia dan cinta.
Penyakitmu, wahai kaum beriman:
Kalian mudah puas diri, pongah, jumawa, bagai burung merak.
Kalian gemar menghakimi!
Tubuh yang mengucur darah di kayu itu, bukan burung merak.
Ia mengajar kita, tentang cinta, untuk mereka yang disesatkan dan dinista.
Penderitaan kadang mengajarmu tentang iman yang rendah hati.
Huruf-huruf dalam kitab suci, kerap membuatmu merasa paling suci.

Ya, Jesusmu adalah juga Jesusku.
Ia telah menebusku dari iman yang jumawa dan tinggi hati.
Ia membuatku cinta pada yang dinista!
Semoga Semua Hidup Berbahagia dalam kasih Tuhan.

Spiritual Pleasures

“One needs to recognize that spiritual pleasures are eternal and valuable than worldly pleasures. After a considerable amount of time, in fact, the pleasures of this world become painful in the light of higher spiritual pleasures. We all with time learn to demolish the temporariness related to materialistic happiness by replacing the need to possess with the need to experience.”

― Garima Roy

Pain and Pleasure

“Pleasure is regarded as pain because of it’s being mixed up with pain; and pleasure (accompanied by pain) is called pain in the same manner as honey mixed with poison is called poison.”

― Nyaya Bhasya

Pain and Consciousness

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imaging figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

― Carl Gustav Jung

Change and Grow

“If we don't change we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”

― Gail Sheehy

A Life You Don't Need to Escape

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”

― Seth Godin

I Choose to Become

“I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”

― Carl Gustav Jung

Look into Your Heart

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who look inside, awakens.”

― Carl Gustav Jung

The Strength of A Man

“The strength of a man isn’t seen in the power of his arms. It’s seen in the love with which he embraces you.”

― Steve Maraboli

The Trouble

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

― Buddha

Pace of Nature

“Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walk Alone

“It's better to walk alone, than walk with crowd going in the wrong direction.”

― Diane Grant

Nature Does Not Hurry

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

― Lao Tzu

Truth and Lie

“Don't worry about the hatters. They are just angry because the truth you speak contradicts the lie they live.”

― Steve Maraboli

Trust Your Own Madness

“You have to trust your own madness.”

― Clive Barker

The Greatest Hazard in Life

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk to failure, but risk must be takes, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

― Leo Buscaglia

Impossible to Fail

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

― Charles Kettering

Expert

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind the are few.”

― Shunryu Suzuki

Enthusiasm

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. ”

― Aldous Huxley

To Become What I Might Be

“When I let go what I am, I become what I might be.”

― Lao Tzu

Hope

“Life can toss us around. We have moments when we aren't sure which direction we are supposed to be going. We can lose sight of what really matters. We get caught in a rip tide of negative thoughts, certain the world is against us. Then from somewhere deep within us hope shines a light and reminds us we are okay.”

― Jane Changes

Patience

“Patience is the ability to let your light shine even after fuse has blown.”

― Harvey Mackay

Silent Prayer

“Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.”

― Bryant McGill

Great Works

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”
― Samuel Johnson

Enjoy Your Own Life

“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”

― Marquis de Condorcet

Dream and Action

“Our dreams are directly linked to our thoughts, however, those thoughts have no value if there isn't action behind them. So today commit that the procrastinating stops here.”

― Jane Changes

What We Do for Others

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

― Albert Pine

The Reality

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”

― John Lennon

The Right Relationship

“You'll know when a relationship is right for you. It will enhance your life, not complicate your life.”

― Brigitte Nicole

Believe in Our Goal

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”

― Albert E. Gray

Fall Apart

“Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.”

― Rae Smith

Miracles

“Out of difficulties grow miracles”

― Jean de La Bruyere

Yes You Can

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

Success Is No Surprise

“Success is no surprise to visionary people. They know what they want, determine a plan to achieve it, and expect positive results.”

― Harvey Mackay

The Flower from Heaven

“A flower nipped in the bed, it was from heaven and it has return to heaven, but has left its fragrance in my mind.”

― Imam Ali a.s.

Seven Deadly Social Sins

“There are seven deadly social sins. Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without conscience. Education without character. Science without humility. Worship without sacrifice.”

― Mahatma Gandhi