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NO Expectations and an aspiration to honesty. Love  RXXXX

'A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.'

LOVE HAS NO OTHER DESIRE THAN TO FULFILL ITSELF,
BUT IF YOU LOVE AND MUST NEEDS HAVE DESIRES,
LET THESE BE YOUR DESIRES.
TO MELT AND BE LIKE A RUNNING BROOK
THAT SINGS ITS MELODY TO THE NIGHT.
TO KNOW THE PAIN OF TOO MUCH TENDERNESS.
TO BE WOUNDED BY YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING OF LOVE;
AND TO BLEED WILLINGLY AND JOYFULLY.
TO WAKE AT DAWN AND GIVE THANKS FOR ANOTHER DAY OF LOVING;
TO REST AT THE NOON HOUR AND MEDITATE LOVE'S ECSTASY;
TO RETURN HOME AT EVENTIDE WITH GRATITUDE;
AND THEN TO SLEEP WITH A PRAYER FOR THE BELOVED IN YOUR HEART
AND A SONG OF PRAISE UPON YOUR LIPS.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN

We live in deeds, not years in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time in heart throbs.

'ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them' Borges

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. - Victor Hugo

Shakespeare wrote: Doubt thou the stars are fire: Doubt that the sun doth move: Doubt truth to be a liar: But never doubt I love.

Every now and then I think about my own death,
and I think about my own funeral.
And I don't think of it in a morbid sense.
Every now and then I ask myself, "What is it that I would want said?"
And I leave the word to you this morning.
I'd like someone to mention that day, that Martin Luther King Jnr. tried to give his life serving others.
I'd likes someone to say that day, that Martin Luther King Jnr. tried to love somebody.
I want you to say that day, that I tried to be right on the war question.
I want you to say that day, that I did try to feed the hungry.
I want you to be able to say that day, that I did try, in my life, to clothe those who were naked.
I want you to say, on that day, that I did try, in my life, to visit those who were in prison.
I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity.
Yes, if you want to sat that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice.
Say that I was a drum major for peace.
I was a drum major for righteousness.
And all of the other shallow things will not matter.
I won't have any money to leave behind.
I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind.
But I just wanted to leave a committed life behind.
And that's all I wanted to say.
If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or a song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living won't be in vain.
If I can do my duty as a Christian ought, if I can bring salvation to a world once wrought, if I can spread the message as the master taught, then my living will not be in vain.
Martin Luther King's own funeral song. April 3rd 1968

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.


All be Happy,
All be without disease,
All creatures have well-being,
And none be in misery of any kind.
Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.


'Peace is the ultimate discovery. Aren't we all searching for peace?
First of all we have to make peace with ourselves by accepting who we are. Each and everyone of us is a particular manifestation of the universal energy. We need to recognise that particularity and 'eachness'; that individuality. Often we have a habit of despising ourselves; 'I am not good enough' is a very common expression. This means I am at war with myself. Unless I make peace within, how can I make peace without? Without inner peace no outer peace can be realised.'
From Satish Kumar, 'You are, Therefore I am.'