Archbishop Desmond Tutu: the World-Compassion-Heart-Nest

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My heart's garland of poems for Desmond Tutu: the world-compassion-heart-nest

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Some are chosen for a fleeting moment,

While others are chosen temporarily,

Still others permanently, by the Lord.

Among the permanent ones,

Archbishop Desmond Tutu tops the list.

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In us,

God-Satisfaction slumbers.

In Desmond Tutu,

God-Satisfaction is fully blossomed. ```

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A sleepless God-obedience

And

A breathless God-surrender

Have founded a very firm footing

In Desmond Tutu’s life.

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Every day

The Lord Supreme pilots His Boat

Between Desmond Tutu’s

Humility-mind

And

Cheerfulness-heart. ```

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Purity’s fragrance-delight

His God-gratitude-heart.

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The source of his selfless action

Is his constant

God-devotion-heart-service.

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Desmond Tutu,

The entire world bows

To your soul and to your life,

For you are abundantly rich

In perfect Light-distribution.

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Your pioneering illumination-mind

Urges the unrest-world

To singularly strive

For Harmony, Peace and Bliss. ```

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To humankind,

Your soul has one very special message:

“Lose no time

In starting to please God.” ```

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As God’s Heart specialises

In forgiving the world,

Even so, your life specialises

In awakening the world. ```

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Your heart

Secretly treasures

The earth-tears.

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Your soul

Sacredly cherishes

The Heaven-Smiles.

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What you sleeplessly and breathlessly

Try to do

For the betterment of the world

At times amazes even God’s Eye! ```

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God has blessingfully, cheerfully

And proudly advised you

To use His own secret Staircase

To arrive and sit at the foot

Of His Transcendental Throne.

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Surprisingly,

You love and serve the interests

Of both God the Creator

And God the creation. ```

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Your eyes promise

And your hands act

Simultaneously.

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Prayerfully, soulfully

And self-givingly

You tender your heart-garden.

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In your blessingful presence,

We all become

The dancing flames of delight.

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Your voice is at once

The Direction-Whisper

And

The Clarion-Call of God. ```

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No God-lover

And no Truth-seeker

Can ever abide

Beyond your compassion-heart-nest. ```

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God-readiness

Your mind-sky.

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God-fulness

Your heart-sun.

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Your heart pined

To be a doctor

In the outer life.

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God’s Heart pined

For you to be an inner doctor,

To dispel the darkness-clouds

Of man's inner sky. ```

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The world has another name

For you:

“Compassion-flooded Justice.”

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Every moment

Of your life

Blooms lovingly.

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Every hour

Of your life

Blossoms forgivingly.

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You do not care for world acclaim.

But the world acclaim loves to be

With you,

In you

And for you.

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When evil strikes hard,

Your goodness-heart

Consoles the victims

Fast, very fast. ```

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In your heart-land,

God’s Satisfaction-Rainbow-Sun

Always shines.

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Each drop of your body

Is made of courage —

Fear nowhere!

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We see the world

With our suspicion-mind. ```

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You see the world

With your concern-heart. ```

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You pray to God the Heavenly Father

To transform the world-devouring tigers

Into His supremely chosen lambs.

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You want each and every human being

To be an ignorance-challenging

And ignorance-conquering lion-roar.

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From you we learn

That without God’s Forgiveness,

We are truly helpless.

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From you we learn

That without God’s Satisfaction,

We are utterly useless.

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From you we learn

That ego-supremacy

Is dangerous, plus hurtful.

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You want us to be hungry

Not only for God’s Compassion-Height.

But also for God’s Justice-Light.

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The celestial fragrance

Of divine Truth

Permeates your two worlds,

Inner and outer. ```

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Your streaming sincerity-tears

Are always found

In the heart-breaking-suffering-world.

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The world is bent

On self-destruction. ```

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You are bent

On world-illumination. ```

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You inspire us not to condone

Darkness-ignorance-injustice-nights

But to challenge them

And illumine them. ```

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Your heart and life

Never run out of

Tolerance, patience

And compassion. ```

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You sleeplessly teach the world

How to grow into

God’s Joy and Pride.

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The supremacy-hungry mind

Of the world

Is a perfect stranger

To your oneness-dream-world-orchestra. ```

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God has made you

His right hand-representative-servant

To awaken the sleeping world

To receive God’s Light, Peace and Bliss

In boundless measure.

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You ask the question of questions:

“How can we have

The happiest life,

If we do not have the holiest heart?” ```

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To have a glimpse

Of your sleepless and breathless

World-service-life

Is to be unreservedly blessed

By the Almighty God.

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Desmond Tutu: a rainbow-vision-eye

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> “God takes sides. He is not a neutral God.”

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu I do not know if God takes your side all the time. But I do know that you all the time take God’s side unmistakably.

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> “God says to you, ‘I have a dream. Please help me to realise it.’”

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu You remind us that God is sleeplessly eager to manifest His Golden Dreams in and through His sweetest children. Just as we need God’s Heart to keep us alive on earth, so too God needs our hands to build His Heaven on earth.

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> “A country that was once a woeful blot on the map of the so-called dark continent has become the rainbow nation, a beacon of hope for all people.”

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu To our greatest joy and pride, you yourself were the dauntless Hope-Lighthouse for all your South African children. Now you have become the peerless Promise-Sun for the entire humanity.

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> “God loves you as if you were the only person on earth.”

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu God has made each human being unique to express Himself in a unique way. Uniqueness is a most powerful connection with the Source. Therefore, each individual justifiably feels that he is the only one whom God loves and cares for. This is in no way his mental hallucination. In His divine Uniqueness-Play, God makes each one feel that he alone is chosen and nobody else.

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> “We are not helpless, and with God’s love we are ultimately invincible.”

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu Human life is a constant battle between yes and no. We strive for a faltering foothold on perilous ground. But God is manifesting His Confidence-flooded divine Life in and through you. Therefore, you tell all His suffering children, “Yes! Yes! Arise! Awake! With our faith-filled hearts, God’s Victory has already been won!”

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> “This is God’s world and He is in charge.”

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu This is God’s world. He is the Doer. We are mere instruments. Therefore, He acts in and through us and shares with us the results. While He is acting, He Himself is having the experiences and giving us the experiences at the same time. We receive from Him according to our heart’s receptivity.

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> “My spirit tells me I am made for transcendence.”

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu

O Self-Transcendence-Hero supreme, the whole world marvels at your amazing self-transcendence-achievements. You have sung the song of self-transcendence many times in your life.

You conquered your unfortunate beginning in life by dint of your inner strength and by invoking God’s Grace from Above.

Your beloved country suffered far beyond the imagination of the rest of the world. While bringing Light into the suffering South Africa, you transcended yourself. Each time you gave something new to your country, God immediately helped you and you transcended yourself. Self-giving is another name for self-transcendence. Self-transcendence is another name for self-giving.

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> Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu Once upon a time, the blacks were the victims. They were tortured ruthlessly by the whites. Then God chose you to be His supremely choice instrument — among not only the blacks, but also the whites — to make the so-called superiors discover that they had forgotten their own supreme Reality. If they had known who they truly were, they would not have tortured the blacks, for a oneness-heart can never torture. You lovingly and blessingfully reminded them of their own divinity, their oneness-heart, which they had completely forgotten.

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> Our God is pre-eminently a God of grace. Everything that we are, that we have, is a gift from God.

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu Like a most beautiful bird, you fly here, there and all-where, spreading the message of God’s Love and Benevolence. Your own self-giving compassion for humanity is the paragon of God’s Blessing-Gifts.

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> There is no such thing as a totally hopeless case.

> — Archbishop Desmond Tutu This immortal message of yours shall echo and re-echo throughout the centuries with its power of hope and upliftment. Young people from all countries should be required to memorise this mantric utterance, so that in times of utter desperation, it will spontaneously rise up from within to ferry them safely to the Golden Shore.

Reflections on the immortal utterances of Desmond Tutu

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter, Mpho Tutu, are all smiles following the sacred ceremony in which he ordained Mpho as an Anglican priest on 17 January 2004 in Christ Church, an historic Episcopal church near Washington, D.C.

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The whole world admires your heroism, grace.

Champion of the poor and oppressed

You were, you are and you forever shall be,

In the heart of mankind. ```

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You work tirelessly

To bring about

Your God-given

World-transformation-vision. ```

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You bring to the world

The message of oneness.

You tell each and everyone

That we are members of one family —

God’s family.

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Indomitably you voice forth:

“Not even the most powerful nation

Can be completely self-sufficient.”

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Luminosity-flooded

Your prophetic vision of the world order:

“Together, together!”

you implore.

“We shall be free only together...

We shall survive only together...

We shall be human only together.”

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Faith in goodness you uphold.

Even in the face of ceaseless misdeeds —

Nay, atrocities —

Your faith-based optimism

Most powerfully and most gloriously shines

“...Each of us has the capacity

To become a saint, even the worst dictator.”

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Forgiveness is of paramount importance.

Forgiveness is the harbinger of a new life,

New hope and new promise.

Your message sublime runs:

“Ultimately there is no future without forgiveness.”

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My treasured meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at his residence in Cape Town, 20 December 1995

“Thank you for taking the time to come out here and spread your message of love and harmony and peace. It is just wonderful timing that you have come now, because I have just recently been appointed to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which we all hope is going to assist our country in the process of healing all the trauma that was caused by apartheid and the injustices of the past. We hope that you will uphold us in your prayers as we set out on this momentous journey in our country.”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

20 December 1995

Residence of the Archbishop

Cape Town, South Africa

Photograph — Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sri Chinmoy

Photograph — Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Photograph — Sri Chinmoy

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U Thant Peace Award

It is a great privilege for me and for the members of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations to be in the presence of a revered messenger of peace, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Father Tutu, your life of unswerving faith represents the enduring love of the Divine for your cherished country — a land richly blessed by the Creator yet, for so long, torn by the strife of separation. Throughout long decades of struggles, yours was the eloquent voice of unity, of reconciliation, of tolerance, of patience, of forgiveness, of conviction. At the same time, it was a compelling call to action. Finally, your voice proclaimed the destined Victory of justice, peace and oneness.

Father Tutu, according to me, you are a soul-diamond, a heart-diamond. We know that diamonds are formed by intense pressure. During the many years of your ministry, you experienced and expressed all the excruciating sufferings of the black children of South Africa. At the same time, as a chosen instrument of God, you courageously, devotedly and tirelessly fought against the appalling ignorance of apartheid, while praying for the transformation of its perpetrators. Placed by the Hand of God between the unstoppable freedom-surge of the oppressed and the fearful aggression-retaliation of the oppressor, you emerged as the brilliant diamond of unity, reflecting the Oneness-Light of the Creator. In you, all the rainbow-colours of God’s children find their true home.

Father Tutu, you perfectly embody both contemplation and action, and thus you serve as a radiant example for God-lovers and peace-seekers everywhere in today’s world. In your compelling words: “The most important, the most cardinal, fact about our life is the spiritual — that encounter with God in prayer, in worship, in meditation.” Again, far from providing an escape, religion for you sounds a clarion call to the service of truth. Once again, in your words: “There is nothing the government can do to me that will stop me from being involved in what I believe is what God wants me to do.”

Father Tutu, your illumined wisdom proclaims that separation is the greatest suffering and the root of conflict, whereas oneness is the greatest joy and the wellspring of peace. Your heart of faith, your life of humility towards God and man — which is nothing but oneness itself — your towering intellect surrendered to the service of God, and your eloquent voice of all-embracing love make you a shining harbinger of tomorrow’s peace-flooded oneness-world. Today, therefore, we wish to present to you our U Thant Peace Award.

The U Thant Peace Award

The U Thant Peace Award is presented to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, devoted messenger of the divine unity of the Creator’s rainbow-children, eloquent voice of humanity’s suffering and Divinity’s Compassion, harbinger of the spirituality of transformation, sowing the seeds of Heaven’s Oneness-Love in earth’s division-mind, offering the flower-victory at the Feet of the Supreme Father.

With our deepest appreciation, admiration and gratitude,

Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

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Desmond Tutu's blessing-light-messages to a fellow God-server

Sri Chinmoy has selected a few blessingful letters and messages from the World-Compassion-Heart-Nest: Desmond Tutu.

Peace Run

“I am happy to support your Peace Run for Justice, Peace and Reconciliation. The world must know God wants us to live amicably as brothers and sisters, members of one family, the human family, God’s family.” April 1987 Message

July 1996 Message

> “We thank Sri Chinmoy for his Ministry for peace and reconciliation in the world and congratulate him heartily for his gift to God and the children of God.”

14 April 1997 Message

> “We give thanks to the Almighty for your work, example and mission.”

Letter

25 February 1998

Sri Chinmoy

Dear Esteemed Friend

God has used you powerfully to be an inspiration to many. How wonderful that you have reached your goal of 27,000 Aspiration-Plants.

God be praised.

The Most Revd D M Tutu

Archbishop Emeritus

Letter

My dear Friend

Heartiest congratulations on your 72nd Birthday.

We all dream of a world of where peace will emerge victorious over strife. You have given your life to work for these dreams of peace and reconciliation to come true. You strive for the oneness of all peoples, especially by reaching out to the youth. Your international centres, and your music, art, writings and athletics all dedicated to peace — are offering hope and encouragement to so many people on our planet.

As I have travelled and taught throughout the world, I see clearly that by joining together with our common quest for a better world, we the children of God can indeed create that world. I am so happy that you also have this same approach — working one person, one heart, one child at a time for humanity’s progress.

I specially offer you my sincere appreciation for the large amounts of humanitarian aid which you and your Centres have been sending to so many parts of the world, including to South Africa. This is yet another wonderful expression of God’s love and concern for all his children!

May God bless you to continue with your wonderful service for many, many more years to come.

Desmond M Tutu Archbishop Emeritus