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"Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of Heaven, unasked and unsought." --Pearl S. Buck, WV writer
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Oneness
"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious
tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
~Albert Einstein
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Wisdom
"Wisdom has to do with our relationship to the whole, to the cosmos, to nature, to both the feminine and the masculine powers of nature. Wisdom is, finding the balance between head and heart, upper chakras and lower chakras, earth and sky, masculine and feminine, joy and sorrow, yin and yang, energy and rest, human and divine, cosmos and psyche."
~Matthew Fox
Quote is taken from page 98 of: Creativity
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Listen
‚In the solitude of your mind are the answers to all your questions about life. You must take the time to ask and listen.‛
~Bawa Mahaiyaddeen
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What & Where?
"Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you.
You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.
It is not dependent on some other body, some other external form."
~Eckhart Tolle
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A FABLE
A Persian fable says: One day
A wanderer fround a piece of clay,
So redolent of perfume
Its odor scented all the room.
"What art thou?" was the quick demand;
"Art thou some gem of Samarcand?
Or spikenard rare in rich disguise,
Or other costly merchandise?"
"Nay, I am but a piece of clay."
"Then whence this wondrous sweetness, pray?"
"Friend, if the secret I disclose,
I have been dwelling with the rose."
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One of the best love poems I have ever read--'Old'.
An Excerpt:
'The Ivy Crown'
William Carlos Williams
The whole process is a lie,
unless,
crowned by excess,
It break forcefully,
one way or another,
from its confinement—
or find a deeper well.
Antony and Cleopatra
were right;
they have shown
the way. I love you
or I do not live
at all.
First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side
But I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on
and so you're back
from outer space
I just walked in to find you here
with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you'd be back to bother me
EMERSON: THE SPIRIT SPORTS WITH TIME by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
"The Over-Soul"
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal one. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul... The soul circumscribes all things. As I have said, it contradicts all experience. In like manner it abolishes time and space. The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable, and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time, can crowd eternity into an hour, or stretch an hour to eternity
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my anthem
Emerson - my favorite
