Never chase love, affection or attention - if it isn’t given freely by another person, it isn’t worth having. (Unknown)

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom

Anaïs Nin

Keep love in your heart

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

- Oscar Wilde

Be Yourself See Yourself

Be Open

The meaning of staying “open,” in this context: listening instead of reacting, holding space instead of talking, being alert as an avenue to spirit.

We have always 2 choices: open or closed. Closed is a rejection, of ourselves or others; open leaves possibilities. When we stay open, we can listen better, we can feel our way into a solution, we can trust and be trusted.

Stay open.

From: The Daily Love / elena

To love

The one who watches is the one who is present...

We're alright

If it’s a misconception
Then why do I feel alone, with no direction anywhere, anyways
It’s such a crooked circle and I’m running around again
Looking for exit-signs and borderlines to take me
Somewhere different, someplace new
Where I can feel alive

I want to start to feel the world again
I want to find a place I’ve never been
Not gonna wait until they tell me when, we’re alright
And if you want to, you can meet me there
We’ll be together though we don’t know where
And for the first time I am so aware
We’re alright

If nothing ever changes, then why is it that I see
So many different faces always looking back at me
Have they always been there, maybe all that’s new is me
Facing the opportunities that set me free
Take me somewhere different, someplace new, where I can feel alive

I want to start to feel the world again
I want to find a place I’ve never been
Not gonna wait until they tell me when, we’re alright
And if you wan to, you can meet me there
We’ll be together though we don’t know where
And for the first time I am so aware
We’re alright

I won’t look back
I won’t go back
there’s no turning back this time

I want to start to feel the world again
I want to find a place I’ve never been
Not gonna wait until they tell me when, we’re alright
And if you wan to you can meet me there
We’ll be together though we don’t know where
And for the first time I am so aware
We’re alright

I Want To Tell You How Beautiful You Are

Bird Shadow

from the darkness comes the light. everysingletime

To touch Hearts

"In her kitchen at dinnertime, six friends are sitting around a long country table yakking away about not much, laughing, eating two kinds of ice cream and apple pie and expensive chocolates after a large meal of leftovers…..

She, though, is sitting in a chair just away from the table, in the corner, watching. Or maybe not watching—maybe she’s just being there—listening, kind of smiling, occasionally saying a few words and then falling silent again.

If you were angry, you might think she was angry; if you were sad, you might think she was sad; if you were lonely or bored or tired or scared or feeling above it all or deeply, deeply depressed or very happy, you might think she was that.

Which means that she, is doing nothing but quietly being there, is doing her work well: she’s being what Ram Dass says she is: a kalyanamitra, a “special friend,” a mirror that shows you — if you dare to take a look on a dark Saturday night - your mind.

From To Love Abundantly: Sharon Salzberg's Journey on the Path

Love, Kärlek, Amore, Kjærlighet, Liebe

“Do we give love for giving?

Do we receive love for receiving?

Or are we love?

As a flower’s fragrance, just is.

Not concerned with a receiver,

Or a giver.

Just is.

Let us become love.

Let us be love.”

-Walter Rinder