A Love Like That
Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
“You owe me.”
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
~ Hafiz
Version by Daniel Ladinsky
A Love Like That
Power and Character
Power and Character
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test his character, give him power.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Caught Up
Caught Up
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another and ourselves.
~ Jack Kornfield
Again and Again
[Again and again, however we know the landscape of love]
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.
From Ahead of All Parting:
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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In Your Heart
In Your Heart
Everything is in you, in your heart. Buddha is in your heart. Enlightenment is in your heart. All (enlightened) qualities are in your heart. They are not found anywhere else.
Lama Kalu Rinpoche
Fly Free
Fly Free
Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness.
~ Lama Surya Das
Heart and Mind
Heart and Mind
May your heart and mind be open, and your body and soul, energy and spirit and community be nourished.
~ Lama Surya Das