You are PRECIOUS

When something is precious,

Instead of holding it tightly,

Focus on opening your hands and sharing it with the world.

 

 

Go Against the Grain

via Pema Chödrön....

Go against the grain of wanting things on our own terms. 

Wanting it to work out for ourselves no matter what happens to the others. 

Dissolve the walls you've built around your hearts.

Dissolve the layers of self-protection you've worked so hard to create. 

Dissolve the fixation and clinging of ego.

This is life. And it's happening.

Time

freedom

darling.....

in a nutshell....

She looks good on you tonight

The truth is....

Oh Pablo.....

Pablo Neruda, will you marry me?

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?