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
Today felt like a good day for this powerful mantra
Can you hear the vibration of the earth from underneath and the heaven from above? RA – The Sun MA – The Moon DA – The Earth SA – The Impersonal Infinity SA SAY – The Totality of Experience SO – Sense of Identity HUNG – The Infinity
“When everyone knows
Few mind-provoking quotes. Simple live wisdom, put in beautiful words; makes me wonder: why I did not think it myself. But perhaps I did, but never wrote it down. “To love life through labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.” –Kahlil Gibran “Thus, the art of life is not seen as holding to yang and banishing yin, but as keeping the two in balance, because there cannot be one without the other.” -Alan Watts “Love is the divine Mother’s arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them. The… Read More
“Because” Inspired by Beatles
“Because” the words are wrong “It makes me cry” “Because” the words are wrong Yet, I still try to word: If one you love the most Keeps Punching you with Emotional, financial, physical Imbalances Over, And over, And over. And you keep Enabling, And enabling, And enabling. For years and years and years. Is it love, help, support, love? Or is it offering a wooden crutch To somebody Who can fly Somebody who should!? Inspired by Beatles’ Song – Because ————————————————————————————————————————- Thoughts are welcome
Stand Together
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the… Read More
NANA G SMITH 