The result is an intriguing if eccentric compendium of meditations, one for each bead, with essays on her divorce and her travels interspersed with passages of scripture, assorted images and poems, and a recipe for pepper biscuits.
He read Scripture to her, recited poems and gave motivational speeches like: "Even if you get run over by a truck, even if your deodorant fails 15 times, you still have to think positive.
It can be a poem, a scripture, something he wrote or even a passage from a favorite childhood book.
The body of texts variously held up as "scripture" include prophecies, biographies, letters, poems, songs, parables, laws, histories, dream diaries, genealogical lists, memoirs, and epics.
My fridge is covered in phrases, poems, and even scripture that my mom and I enjoy and draw inspiration from.
The musicians seem to trade remarks, and sometimes talk along with one another, as if each were reciting a text — a poem or a scripture — which they then consider.
In the interests of better health, these people should read scripture, or at least a poem, twice a day.
On the day of the anniversary the programme begins early in the morning at about 4 or 5 am with the singing of Asa-di-Var (morning hymns) and hymns from the Sikh scriptures followed by Katha (exposition of the scripture) and lectures and recitation of poems in praise of the Guru.
He had never written a poem in response to scripture before, and says he is not a believer.
There are two references to Lumbini as the birthplace of the Buddha in the Pali scripture, the first in a narrative poem attached to the Nalaka Sutta and the other in the Kathavatthu, but the earliest canonical accounts of the birth are in Sanskrit scriptures, the Mahavastu (ii.18) and the Lalitavistara (ch. 7), neither of which can be dated earlier than the 3rd or the 4th century ce.
