I Love You

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this.”
― Pablo Neruda

Aspirations for Living

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony."   William Henry Channing, 1810 - 1884

Solutions

"Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between our apparently contradictory notions.  The notions will all be knocked from under our feet.  We shall see that there never was any problem.  And, more than one, that impression which I can't describe except by saying that it's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness.  The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer."  C.S Lewis

Sacrifice and Cost

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required in exchange for it, immediately or in the long run."  Henry David Thoreau

Dark Night of the Soul

"The dark night may be a kind of dying.  It washes out a cluttered life.   Think of your dark night as a pruning of your tree of life."  Thomas Moore

Travel

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people.  Let your memory be your travel bag."  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

Awareness

"The man of awareness lives in the world like a bee.   He never mars the beauty of this world, he never destroys the perfume of this world.   He lives silently, moves silently.  He asks only as much as is needed.   His life is simple, it is not complex.   He does not gather for tomorrow.  The bee never gathers for tomorrow; today is enough unto itself."   Buddha