Incorruptible Apparel

"Love does not wait for dramatic circumstances to reveal itself....it is the continuing accumulation of small words and acts manifested daily that "clothe" us and reveal what we are. Such spiritual "clothing" will not wear out and become valueless as does physical clothing. It is, as the Bible says, "incorruptible apparel" 1 Pet. 3:4

~ Making Your Family Life Happy
(Watchtower Bible & Tract Society)

Still Loving Life And Loving You...

"Darkness may fall, murmuring softly
Or crash like a bolt from the blue
But I'm living in grace
If night finds me in a place
Where I'm still loving life
And loving you...

My dreams of the morning may shatter
My best plans for noon may fall through
Still frustration never binds me
If Every evening finds me
Still loving life
And loving you..."

~ Dr. Maya Angelou

A True Spiritual Partnership

"...Spiritual partners are not together in order to quell each others financial fears or because they can produce a house in the suburbs and that entire conceptual framework. The understanding or consciousness that spiritual partners bring to their commitment is dynamically different. The commitment of spiritual partners is to each others spiritual growth, recognizing that that is what each of them is doing on Earth and that everything serves that.

Spiritual partners bond with an understanding that they are together because it is appropriate for their souls to grow together."

"When you choose to respond to life's difficulties with compassion and love instead of fear and doubt, you create a heaven on earth - you bring the aspects of a more balanced and harmonious level of reality into physical being."

~ Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul

Spoil Your Spouse, Not Your Children

"Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book

Nature's Guidance System

"Feelings of pain are Nature's Guidance System, trying to tell us to stop, make a change, take care of ourselves, nurture ourselves. But when you ignore the signal and instead try to make it stop by dulling the pain through alcohol or drugs or sex or food or whatever, you keep moving down the line toward increasing misery and suffering.

Your passions, on the other hand, are the most significant loves in your life. They arise from deep within the heart. Passion will draw you irresistibly along the path of your destiny. It connects you with the most profound part of your own nature. When you are aligned with your passions, you will feel expanded, open, turned on. Passion takes us up the line toward increasing joy and fulfillment."

~ Janet & Chris Attwood, The Passion Test

Tales of Mere Existence....*sigh* ;)

Your Heart Is A Magical Kitchen

"People learn to become selfish and close their hearts so tightly. They are starving for love, not knowing that the heart is a magical kitchen. Your heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen, and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. You can give your love with no conditions; you can be generous with your love because you have a magical kitchen in your heart. Then all those starving people who believe the heart is closed will always want to be near you for your love.

What makes you happy is love coming out of you."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

You Gotta Love Love...

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The Blind Wisdom of Lovers

"...only love can free us because the truth is the antidote to fear. The cynical claim that what people really want is money, power and security falls apart once we look deeper. The exhilaration of falling in love is an escape from ego, its sense of threat, and its selfishness. The escape is what we really want. Whatever rewards it brings, the ego cannot do two things: it cannot abolish fear, since ego is founded on fear; and it cannot create love, since ego by definition shuts out love.

The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty. You will have to surrender to another person, and the ego prizes its own will above anyone else's. Love will make your feelings ambiguous, and the ego wants to feel the certainty of wright and wrong. Many other experiences that cannot be comprehended by ego apply to love- a lover is confused, spontaneous, vulnerable, exposed, detached, carefree, wondrous, and ever new.

Love's journey would be terrifying if we didn't have passion to give us courage-the blind courage of lovers, it is often called. It would be truer to call it the blind wisdom of lovers, because the ego's certainty is an illusion. Uncertainty is the basis of life... "

~ Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love