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I love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride. I love you because I know no other way…

~ Pablo Neruda

There is no hope for us in this painful, mysterious world save in giving ourselves to love.

~ Byron Caldwell Smith ... Art by Marc Chagall

"Where there is love there is life."

–Mahatma Gandhi ... Alien Valentine by Angela Deane

“God desires the heart.”

~ The Talmud … Immaculate Heart of Mary by Cameron Smith

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness and call that handful of sand the world.

~ Robert Pirsig ... Art by William Henry Margetson, c. 1889

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

~ May Sarton ... Artist - Kathleen Hale

My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I thrive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword.

~ Goethe ... Art by Duy Huynh

“Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind …” ~ Shannon L. Alder Tiffany stained glass

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Xtra Thoughts

February 11

“Serenity isn’t freedom from the storm, it is peace within the storm.”

“When we release the bitterness, judgment and blame of the past, whether of ourselves or others, the past becomes a stepping stone to spiritual growth, to increased compassion, understanding and love. Today, repeat several times, ‘I bless my past and see it as a stepping stone to greater good.'”

—Mary Manin Morrissey

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

—William Arthur Ward

“Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins.”

—Native American Proverb

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”

—Frank A. Clark

"Though we travel the world over To find the beautiful We must carry it with us Or we will find it not." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Summer Evening in Paris - Childe Hassam

“You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.” ~ Miguel Ruiz Art by B. G. Sharma - Rajasthan, India.

“One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.” ~John Gardner Ron Francis - Stormy Weather - oil on canvas

“Don’t scorn your life just because it’s not dramatic, or it’s impoverished, or it looks dull, or it’s workaday. Don’t scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you’ve got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open.” ~ Philip Levine Lady of the House - William Henry Margetson

“Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then’.” ~Craig D. Lounsbrough The Crystal Ball - John William Waterhouse

“Much of our work is invisible and intangible. You cannot measure it by human means; and sometimes a period of silent reflection will accomplish more good than if the time had been spent in outward activity. Our work is immaterial where we are and what we do; the thing that matters is who we are and what we intend. Constant preoccupation with exterior work handicaps our knowledge of ourselves and of our intentions.”

~ Francis Xavier Ford …. Artist - Alla Tsank

“The world has no visible order and all I have is the order of my breath. I let myself happen.”

~ Clarice Lispector … Artist: Daniel Gerhartz

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