and you tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.

Warsan Shire

Love

Inside you are sweet beyond telling,
and the cathedral there,
so deeply tall.


~Rumi

Love and Beauty

"I want to learn how to be here fully, in this body in this world.  And I want to live in a world infused with the power of the erotic.   When we live erotically, the meaning enfolded in our very cells is unfolded as we touch and are touched.   This is beauty."  Oriah

Sensuality

"If we come home to our own sensuality and if we let go of all the awful, brutalizing notions of sin and guilt with which we were inflicted and we recognize and recover the lyrical innocence of our own bodies then we will come into the sacred within us.   It will also in another way relieve us of the crass, harsh brutality the modern idea of Eros, which is very voyeuristic and driven and lacks the textured gentleness of loving sensuality."  John O' Donahue

God

"We need to reimagine God as the energy of transfigurative Eros, the source from which all creativity flows."  John O' Donahue

Eros

"The beauty of Eros is its passionate thresholds where light and darkness meet within the person."  John O' Donahue

Eros

"Eros is ultimately the energy of divine creativity.   In the transfiguration of the sensuous, the wildness of eros and the playfulness of the soul come into lyrical rhythm."   John O' Donahue