"When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love. Of course, first you have to have trust, respect, and confidence in yourself. Trust that you have a good and compassionate nature. You are part of the universe; you are made of stars. When you look at your loved one, you see that he is also made of stars and carries eternity inside. Looking in this way, we naturally feel reverence. True love cannot be without trust and respect for oneself and for the other person."

- Thich Nhat Hanh, from How to Love


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Photo Credit: Joseph Belanger


Simply by thinking I stood among the clouds. They sur-
rounded and passed me, being and becoming. Blood
released into clear water. Breath into cold air. Formless-
ness entering form, forced into form. Breathing felt huge
then smaller than a cell. And I thought,"Don't the clouds
themselves feel ambivalent between heaven and earth,
hardly more substantial than their shadows? They come
into being as randomly as we do. And they disintegrate.
They go. What is the lifespan of a cloud? We want to float
among them, loving the colossal, shot through with
crooked pins of fire, towering side by side.

How did I get up there? I was thinking about changing
my life and wanted to talk to a cloud, since clouds are
always changing. And the clouds said, "How long has it
been since you felt completely happy? Because you are
always dissatisfied, always disappointed - it has been a
long time. Talk to us. We are admired and disparaged.
We are less than everything you compare us to except
nothingness. We are not nothing. Talk to us. Our silence,
like the new shapes we are forever assuming, will be sym-
pathetic. In the clouds, you will understand yearning as
you never have and come back to earth changed, who
knows how?"

- Mark Jarman, from "In the Clouds"


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Image / oleg0



"The moon calls to the sea and the sea calls to the humble stream,

which flows on and on from wherever it springs in search of the sea,

no matter how far away it may lie, and growing as it flows,

the stream rushes on until no mountain can hold back its surge."


- Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces



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One of my favorite performances of one of my favorite pieces of all time...hope you enjoy.

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Image / Kostia Osipov



A Hundred Objects Close By
by Mira


I know a cure for sadness:

Let your hands touch something that

makes your eyes

smile.


I bet there are a hundred objects close by

that can do that.


Look at

beauty's gift to us --

her power is so great she enlivens

the earth, the sky, our

soul.



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