All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love-or perhaps the lack of it-that both picked us up and dropped us off at crossroads.
I got schooled this year by a boy. A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with. And he taught me the most important thing of all... To put the emphasis On life.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
"God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life.
Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.
Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.
It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.
Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.
No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.
The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.
A consecrated space experientially reminds you that there is much more to life than you think.
"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.
If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.
Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.
If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.
O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.
A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.
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