Don't burden another by trusting them to not let you down. Instead have faith in your own ability to transcend any hurt, any transgression. Be the lightness in another person's heart ♥

It's a good yardstick to measure the quality of our life not by the extent of our accumulations but by the immensity of our contributions, not in meeting the desires of one but in seeing to the well being of all.

All lives consist of parts either broken or not whole. This incompleteness cannot be mended. It can, on occasion though, find acceptance in forgetfulness of oneself in service of another.

Love is the heart of simplicity

The joy in my heart is a mere reflection of the smile that I bring about in another's life

It takes immense head to hold off a tsunami wanting to result from a throbbing heart. The heart propels without reason, the head reasons without enthusiasm. Trapped somewhere in between this illogical and the reasonable is the expression of my being.

Our tendency to endlessly rationalize our actions in our favor makes the truth about ourselves not just difficult but impossible to perceive. Driven by self-deception we argue for our limitations and they become ours to keep. The extent of our honesty about ourself can be measured by our sense of inner strength. Where we feel weak is where we have lied, deceived, and rationalized our actions to suit our comfort, convenience, & proclivities. In Truth there is neither fear nor weakness.

Much of what we seek is not to be found in the noise of our pursuits but is waiting to be discovered in the immense silence of our being.

This discovery is gratitude,
This gratitude is love,
This love is service,
This service, devotion.
♥

Love for one thing makes us afraid of another. Fear is the shadow cast from love's light. Only in the realization of oneness is there a light without shadow, a love free of fear, and a life devoid of conflict. Our fear is a doorway to understand our judgmental alienations; our love, a witness to our expansive acceptance.

Contentment is not of having enough but of not wanting more. If that, which we have, does not fulfill us nor will the fulfillment of that which we so desire.

One ray of light lifts away an entire night of deep darkness,
no matter how insurmountable or infinite the darkness may have seemed.
A single touch of love alleviates the pain of a lifetime,
no matter how deep seated and unending the pain may have seemed.
Let us then not close the window to the ray, let us not shut the door on love.
Today, let us be free of the fear of another and be courageously sharing of the gift that is ourselves. ♥

Often it is not the knowledge of another's strength but an unacknowledged sense of our own weakness, which is at the root of much of our fear, anger, and frustration. To be at peace with oneself is to be in harmony with the world around.

To complain is to require another to change for us to love them.
To demand is to require another to love us as we are.
Whether complain or demand, either by itself is sufficient to stifle love.
Willingly let go of any idea about who you believe you are to lovingly accommodate another as they are ♥

The opportunity to choose is ever present; the ability to do so, not as much.

If there were no empty, there would be no full either. Our inexperience of lack finds us indifferent to the rich fulfillment of our lives. Stop, look, acknowledge, thank, smile, and serve.

We are so similar in the very fears that divide us and keep us isolated from each other.

Life comes in small sips... some quench, some thirst...

Bring to life lessons from the day ♥

Bring to life lessons from the day ♥

Of the many regrets we repent for not listening to the voices in our head, there are as many virtues that find their way into our lives for paying no heed to the same. It is a great blessing to be able to ignore and not believe all that is spoken and exchanged in the vagaries of one's mind.

Hurt is the lid on the jar of love, the means of opening which lie within.

All lives are but stories of trajectories traced by love - of its embrace or its denial, of its avoidance or its abundance, of love of people or of things, of love of ideas or of knowledge, of love of another or of self.
Whether acknowledged or repudiated, like the invisible winds, it is what makes all life possible and ongoing.

Meet today with what scares you about tomorrow.

Tendency to judge another lies embedded in the inability to accept oneself.

The joy of power lies in the dissolution of self-doubt. Therein also lies its corruption. We go from wondering if we could do anything right to believing we can do no wrong. Neither is true. Neither is serving.

Knowledge is worthless without its application and dangerous without the wisdom of knowing when and how to apply. That which serves can also enslave.

Love as a feeling is elusive. Love as an action is always within reach. Let's reach for it. Let's make our love our practice.

Knowledge blocks the path to love unless love was the path that led to the knowledge.

No matter how much we may be in need, there is always room for us to meet the needs to another.

Just because you are talking does not mean someone is listening. Just because you are quite does not mean you are not being heard. Be silent, be prayerful, be forgiving, be kind. ♥

Making the right choice is not always easy but neither is choosing the easy way out. Be brave, be bold. Instead of always trying to change life, on occasion be open to letting life change you ♥

Dear God,
Grant within our hearts:
A silence that accommodates all noise;
A light that defeats all darkness;
A love that overcomes all fear;
And a wisdom that dispels all ignorance.
May each moment we discover a piece of you in our hearts
and all of our selves in yours. ♥

Come what may, be kind.

A blessing in hindsight is often a hardship that one endured with awareness or conquered with luck!

Today I choose to not worship busy. Today I refuse to be rushed. Today I decline the use of what I do and how much of it as a means to define who I am. Today I accept my sufficiency with all my accomplishments and with all my lacks. Today I declare I am enough as I am.

Another does not always lie with an intention to cheat. Often it is because we fail to instill in them the faith that we are capable of handling their truth; that we have the capacity to continue to love them in spite of their truth, whatever it may be. May we be forgiving of another's lie and be of greater faith when sharing our own truth.

The blissful canvas of ignorance lies devoid of the color of gratitude until painted with the awareness of the avoided pain.

Unless we are close to ourselves we cannot feel intimacy with another. We can only be distant from another when we keep ourselves at arms length...

We can take on the pain of another no more than we can offer our happiness to them. Often times it is not what we do but who we are, which is of most comfort.

We despise that which scares us. To be free from fear is to be free from hate, from judgement, from malice. End of fear is the beginning of love.

The fruit of a tree, whose seed is discontent, can never be fulfillment. To be fulfilled, requires that one act from a place of contentment. Contentment is either here and now or nowhere to be found.

The undrinkable sea water is the source of all drinking water. Thus that which cannot be experienced by the mind or by the senses is the root of all that is cognized or perceived. In the eternal nothingness lies the source of all things.

One who makes you doubt your friend is not your friend.