Silence

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico as Sun goes down.

Leonard Cohen

My all times favorite poet and song writer. My secret lover from another dimension. Where are you now? Hope you are still writing and making “lives” better every day for millions of listeners; with the depth of your thoughts, your suffering, your self-seeking, your “black” humor, your words, your elegance and your unconditional modesty. Miss you Leonard Cohen! “Maybe there’s a God above But all I’ve ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya And it’s not a cry that you hear at night It’s not somebody who’s… Read More

How to Love

Compassion The second element of true love is compassion. Compassion is the capacity to understand the suffering in oneself and in the other person. If you understand your own suffering, you can help him to understand his suffering. Understanding suffering brings compassion and relief. You can transform your own suffering and help transform the suffering of the other person  with the practice of mindfulness and looking deeply. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Love

How to Love

The Four Elements of Love True love is made of four elements: loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In Sanskrit, these are: maitri (metta), karuna, mudita and upeksha. If your love contains these elements,  it will be healing and transforming, and it will have the element of holiness in it. True love has the power to heal and transform any situation and bring deep meaning to our lives.  ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Be

Be wild Be free Be loving Be caring Be funny Do something what you have never done before Go to the places you have not been Flip the world around Do not be afraid not to be as everybody else is Stop trying to make sense out of everything …and just be. Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understands. ~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle When you get free from… Read More