Daily Meditation: Eternal Summer

Daily Meditation: Eternal Summer
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We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life.

Today's meditation features a timeless sonnet by William Shakespeare. Whatever season you find yourself in, there is something timeless and eternal about love, which may always bring some comfort.

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Before You Go

Meditation 101 Reading List
Sharon Salzberg(01 of15)
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Loving-Kindness (credit:Amazon.com)
Sakyong Mipham, Pema Chodron(02 of15)
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Turning The Mind Into An Ally (credit:Amazon.com)
Shunryu Suzuki(03 of15)
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Not Always So (credit:Amazon.com)
Thich Nhat Hanh(04 of15)
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The Miracle of Mindfulness (credit:Amazon.com)
Victor Davich(05 of15)
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8 Minute Meditation (credit:Amazon.com)
Shunryu Suzuki(06 of15)
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (credit:Amazon.com)
Sharon Salzberg(07 of15)
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Real Happiness (credit:Amazon.com)
Pema Chodron(08 of15)
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How To Meditate (credit:Amazon.com)
Chogyam Trungpa(09 of15)
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John Daido Loori(10 of15)
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Finding The Still Point (credit:Amazon.com)
Susan Piver(11 of15)
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Quiet Mind (credit:Amazon.com)
Jack Kornfield(12 of15)
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Meditation For Beginners (credit:Amazon.com)
John Daishin Buksbazen(13 of15)
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Joseph Goldstein(14 of15)
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The Experience Of Insight (credit:Amazon.com)
Bhante Gunaratana(15 of15)
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Mindfulness In Plain English (credit:Amazon.com)