Teaching me to love.
Love was for me a delicate thread
Stretched between two adjacent pegs
But now it has been transformed into a halo
Its first is its last
And its last is its first.
It encompasses every being
Slowly expanding to embrace
All that ever will be."
--Jalil al-Din Rumi
for one miraculous moment
all nature is our congregation and our choir.
We have the ear and eye of heaven.
The One smiles in our hearts.
No moment could be more sacred in our lives
We rejoice that we are thought worthy to be
Actors in the peaceful drama of blissful souls.
We have the hope and courage of heaven.
The One smiles in our hearts."
--Manon Williams
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I am the silk page at your fingertips
running down on me, the fruit you revolve and leave mapped in bloom, the blur of a lens you lift a shirt hem to, rub over, breathe on, I am the way you see the world anew."
--Mimii Khalvati
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit."
--Kahlil Gibran
--Rainer Marie Rilke
"...and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)...
--e.e. cummings
Our common speech, that utters mysteries
Only half known, insists that we fall in love
Who voyages on those seas
Goes to the ends of the world, a lifetime's journey
Yet vows are chosen, and acts that make them good
Chosen, for better, for worse, or hard or easy.
I search for words to bless you, find none right
But see that you from stores of joy already
Are blessing others, while your joys increase.
Blest be your chosen lot, dear son and daughter,
And the journey you began before you willed it--
Falling in love--upon those passionate seas."
--Anne Ridler
