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"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang |
"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence |
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain. ~ Jim Morrison
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"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But
the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." ~ Mother Teresa |
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ~ Gilda Radner
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran |
I may have posted this already.......
But damn...it's just that delicious.... :chocolate: She was wildfire, that girl. She could move like lightning or flow easy as a dream. If she desired you, she only had to think about you and you'd be hers. She wore orange and red like painted passion. Soft and hot at times, or hard as stone when she needed to be. She was an orphan, had the soul of an orphan, had to learn things the hard way. But once she made a decision, there was no turning back. People say she had a heart of stone, but that's not true. She was sweet too, and generous. She'd offer her soul, which was as wide as the earth is wide. Always giving of herself. Constantly giving everything, as if there were an endless river inwards. Creating worlds from her own substance. Can you imagine the pain she was able to endure? Burning like that at all times? Can we? Be like her? I asked my friend, crying from inside, and she said, Oh my tender love, so many girls have died trying. ~"Kim Jensen, from "Halfway Places"~ Peace and Love :praying: |
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich person's abode.
~Henry David Thoreau |
WHAT IF.......
What if is my son's favorite game, I have found it is also a favorite of those "afraid" of LOVE :heartbeat:
So at 3:00am it just fits......... What if you slept ? And what if, In your sleep You dreamed ? And what if, In your dream, You went to heaven And there plucked A strange and Beautiful flower ? And what if, When you awoke, You had the flower in your hand ? ....Ah, what then? ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~ Peace and Love :praying: |
One's level of integrity and character is revealed by the way one care's for their pet.
~A friend of mine at Animal Trustees of Austin |
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
~Rita Mae Brown |
"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures." - Charles Noble
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Hemingway--"A Farewell To Arms" excellent read. |
"Rescue work is like jazz. Improvisation based on fundamentals." ~ Michael Perry, "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time"
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Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~ Woody Allen
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My favorite opening paragraph of a book, ever.
"Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun. The swamps grow spongy and pungent. Standing water goes warm and soupy, clotted with frog eggs and twitching with larvae. Along the ditches, heron-legged stalks of canary grass shoot six feet high and unfurl seed plumes. In the fields, the clover pops its blooms and corn trembles for the sky." ~ Michael Perry, "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time"
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" i slept...an i drempt we were making love, slow sweet and damn.... oh so good.... we were connected mind body and soul, two bodies perfectly in sync.... i felt you tense as i tensed...... i tasted your pleasure on your lips...and skin.... i rode a wave of pure pleasure from your touch.... we peaked...and peaked....and peaked again......untill we lay still.... damp and chilled from our exertion..... we spoon and our bodies fit together like puzzle pieces.... i breath in your scent...... and doze in you arms.....safe and content..... we, i awake...i am alone....my body aches to feel urs..... i lost you in a dream......." ~Me~ Peace and Love......:ohm: |
The art of living does not consist in
preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan |
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer |
Drunk as Drunk
Drunk as drunk on turpentine From your open kisses, Your wet body wedged Between my wet body and the strake Of our boat that is made of flowers, Feasted, we guide it - our fingers Like tallows adorned with yellow metal - Over the sky's hot rim, The day's last breath in our sails. Pinned by the sun between solstice And equinox, drowsy and tangled together We drifted for months and woke With the bitter taste of land on our lips, Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime And the sound of a rope Lowering a bucket down its well. Then, We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses. - Neruda |
If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
~John Maxwell |
~ People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. ~ Anthony Robbins |
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
--Mercedes Lackey |
When she sees his eyes later -- red and swollen
and faraway, she remembers the symmetry of the stars at night, and whispers freely, I don't know what to do with the poetry. I don't know what to do with my body. He tells her she has done it already. - Fanny Howe |
To Have Without Holding
Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the wind roaring and whimpering in the rooms rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds that thwack like rubber bands in an open palm. It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles that feel as if they are made of wet plaster, then of blunt knives, then of sharp knives. It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. It pesters to remember the lover who is not in the bed, to hold back what is owed to the work that gutters like a candle in a cave without air, to love consciously, conscientiously, concretely, constructively. I can't do it, you say it's killing me, but you thrive, you glow on the street like a neon raspberry, You float and sail, a helium balloon bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing on the cold and hot winds of our breath, as we make and unmake in passionate diastole and systole the rhythm of our unbound bonding, to have and not to hold, to love with minimized malice, hunger and anger moment by moment balanced. --Sharon Olds |
Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods. ~Buddha |
Happiness is not a station to arrive at,
but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck |
The Pure Stuff
I wasn’t exactly sure how to tap into this subterranean sea that I sensed (or, rather, hoped) lay beneath my crusty separate self like an aquifer beneath a desert. I had no divining rod except a raggedy sort of faith in the power of love - the pure stuff, not the compromised cupfuls we flavor and bottle and hand out in small portions and sometimes take back. |
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein |
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone”- Sam Levenson |
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
~William Shakespeare |
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There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster |
"I am not afraid of storms, I am learning to sail my own ship."
~ Louise May Alcott "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~ Annie Dillard "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." ~ William Durant |
"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." ~ Chris Stevens, "Northern Exposure"
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human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted
martin luther king, jr. |
"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man with no feet. "
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
~Doris Lessing |
Within us is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One. When it breaks through our intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through our will, it is virtue; when it flows through our affections, it is love. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The Oversoul
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“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”
MWhitner Calvin & Hobbes quotes |
I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile
is very important in our day~to~day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behavior. ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
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