I know you, you're just like me.
Stan Dale
When true giving occurs, you have more afterwards than when you started.
Peter Rengel
When you hold back your Love
Hoping to find more elsewhere,
You learn how to wait,
Not how to Love.
Peter Rengel
Love is trust
Love is smell
Love is how you treat someone well under pressure.
someone on the WELL
For what we are beginning to wake up to today ...is that we have for
millenia structured our social instititions and our systems of values
precisely in ways that serve to block, distort, and pervert our enormous
human yearning for loving connections.
Riane Eisler, "Sacred Pleasure", p. 383
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which
has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you
ought to be living is the one you are living.
Joseph Campbell
Ego is convinced that Love is dangerous.
A Course in Miracles
There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes
to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit
of smoke coming through the chimney and pass on their way. Now,
you must tend that inward fire, wait patiently for the hour when
somebody will come and sit down near it -- to stay there maybe?
Van Gogh, Letters to Theo
Womanist: Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. LOVES the Spirit.
Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. LOVES the Folk.
Loves herself. REGARDLESS.
Alice Walker
How to fix people (listening for engineers :-)
People have really good built in diagnostics.
If you listen well the will tell you what is wrong.
If you listen really well they will hear what is wrong.
If you're an expert listener they will hear what is wrong and realize
they no longer need fixing.
John Pettitt
Symptoms of Inner Peace
Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many
have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people
everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose
a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of
conflict in the world.
Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:
- A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based
on past experiences.
- An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
- A loss of interest in judging other people.
- A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
- A loss of interest in conflict.
- A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom).
- Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
- Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
- Frequent attacks of smiling.
- An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them
happen.
- An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as
the uncontrollable urge to extend it.
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