When you are able

When you are able to contain both the light and dark together, that is a very enlightening state. It means that you no longer have to choose one experience over another. You do not have to choose love OR hate, blame OR forgiveness, sadness OR joy, anger OR openheartedness. You are no longer polarized; no particular feeling boxes you in and keeps you from the light of true self. You then have access to the full range of human experiences you came into this life to embrace.

~Martia Nelson

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All things

All things divinely intended for my life must be made welcome - heart breaking, unfair and ugly are surely well deserved, but more than that, they make way for the truest truths and a love so impossibly beautiful it will outlast this soul for sure.

~Grace Gibson

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Have you ever been in love?

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”


~Neil Gaiman

One day

"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."

~ Kahlil Gibran

The way of love

"The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings."

- Rumi

Sit right there

"Sit right there -
don't do a thing, just rest.
For your seperation from God,
from Love
is the hardest work in this world."

~ Hafiz

We need

We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

~ Virginia Satir

The ultimate choice

"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate."

~Erich Fromm

It is those

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

~Norman Maclean

Hold on

"Hold on to what is good, even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe, even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life, even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand, even if someday I'll be gone away from you."

~ A Pueblo Indian Prayer

You really

"You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

~Lucille Ball

Love is

Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self. Love is your power.

~A Course in Miracles

Just don't give up

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

I have no plans

"I've no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world is more interesting with you in it."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

People will say

"People will say we're in love."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

The Subject Tonight is Love

The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!

~Hafiz

I still think

"I still think All You Need is Love,
but I don't think that just saying it is gonna do it."

- John Lennon

I think I mentioned

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

~Sting

The moment you have

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

The flowering

The flowering of love is meditation.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti