James Cousins

James Henry Cousins (22 July 1873 – 20 February 1956) was an Irish-Indian writer, poet, playwright, teacher, Theosophist and convert to Hinduism.

Quotes

• When I from life's unrest had earned the grace
  Of utter ease beside a quiet stream;
  When all that was had mingled in a dream
  To eyes awakened out of time and place;
  Then in the cup of one great moment's space
  Was crushed the living wine from things that seem;
  I drank the joy of very Beauty's gleam,
  And saw God's glory face to shining face.
  Almost my brow was chastened to the ground,
  But for an inner Voice that said: "Arise!
  Wisdom is wisdom only to the wise:
  Thou art thyself the Royal thou hast crowned:
  In Beauty thine own beauty thou hast found,
  And thou hast looked on God with God's own eyes."
  • "Vision". The Bell-Branch (Dublin: Maunsel & Co, 1908) p. 13

The Quest (1906)

Dublin: Maunsel & Co

• For sorrow and joy are one, and all the past
  And all the future mingle in a kiss.
  • "The Marriage of Lir and Niav"

• They said: "She dwelleth in some place apart,
     Immortal Truth, within whose eyes
     Who looks may find the secret of the skies
  And healing for life's smart."
  I sought Her in loud caverns underground,—
     On heights where lightnings flashed and fell;
     I scaled high Heaven; I stormed the gates of Hell,
  But Her I never found
  Till thro' the tumults of my Quest I caught
     A whisper: "Here, within thy heart,
     I dwell; for I am thou: behold, thou art
  The Seeker and the Sought."
  • "The Quest"

External links

• Encyclopedic article on James Cousins on Wikipedia