posted July 13, 2007 01:40 PM            

Love Notes

"When you find your path, you will also find your love story."

- Deepak Chopra

posted August 26, 2007 09:41 AM            

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these—to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

posted August 26, 2007 09:44 AM            

~ The Girl in The Café

posted August 26, 2007 09:46 AM            

~ Albert Camus

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

~ Og Mandino

"At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam."

posted August 30, 2007 05:47 PM              

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
~Jean Paul Richter

posted August 30, 2007 07:02 PM            

Til we meet again, love and Blessings on your journey.

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted August 31, 2007 12:59 PM              

We are like a company of singing dancers, who may turn their gaze outward and away, notwithstanding they have the choirmaster for centre ; but when they are turned towards him, then they sing true and are truly centered upon him. Even so we encircle the Supreme always, and when we break the circle, it shall be our utter dissolution and cessation of being ; but our eyes are not at all times fixed upon the centre. Yet in the vision thereof is our attainment and our repose and the end of all discord, God in his dancers and God the true Centre of the dance.

Plotinus, Enneads: VI, ix, 8.

posted August 31, 2007 01:07 PM              

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. ... Those who attain to that perfect peace which is called Nirvana, or, in the language of the Hindus, Samadhi, do this more easily through music. Therefore, Sufis, especially those of the Chishtiyya School of ancient times, have taken music as a source of their meditation; and by meditating thus they derive much more benefit from it than those who meditate without the help of music.

The effect that they experience is the unfoldment of the soul, the opening of the intuitive faculties; and their heart, so to speak, opens to all the beauty which is within and without, uplifting them, and at the same time bringing them that perfection for which every soul yearns.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

posted September 24, 2007 02:27 PM              

"Spite of all, do you still chafe and complain, not understanding that, in all the evils to which you refer, there is really only one -- the fact that you do chafe and complain? If you ask me, I think that for a man there is no misery unless there be something in the universe which he thinks miserable. I shall not endure myself on that day when I find anything unendurable.

"I am ill; but that is a part of my lot. My slaves have fallen sick, my income has gone off, my house is rickety, I have been assailed by losses, accidents, toil, and fear; this is a common thing. Nay, that is an understatement; it was an inevitable thing. Such affairs come by order, and not by accident... I shall pay all my taxes willingly. Now all the things which cause us to groan or recoil are part of the tax of life -- things, my dear Lucilius, which you should never hope and never seek to escape.

"... Come, did you not know, when you prayed for long life, that this is what you were praying for? A long life includes all these troubles, just as a long journey includes dust and mud and rain. 'But,' you cry, 'I wished to live, and at the same time to be immune from all ills.' Such a womanish cry does no credit to a man."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Epistulae Morales" (Moral Epistles)

posted September 27, 2007 10:38 PM            

"A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light. He will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul."

- Plato

posted October 03, 2007 03:30 PM              

~ Nietzsche

posted October 11, 2007 12:16 AM            

~Nietzsche