CHESTNUT TREE (Honesty) - of unusual beauty, does not want to impress, well-developed sense of justice, vivacious, interested, a born diplomat, but irritates easily and sensitive in company, often due to a lack of self confidence, acts sometimes superior, feels not understood, loves only once, has difficulties in finding a partner.

How about you?

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Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple
and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
- Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
-Kahlil Gibran

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
— Oscar Wilde

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
— William Arthur Ward

When you walk through a storm
Hold your chin up high
And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet, silver song of a lark.

Walk on, through the wind,
Walk on, through the rain,
Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never walk alone
-R. Rodgers
- O. Hammerstein II

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” - Patanjali

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Music by Loreena McKennitt
Lyrics by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
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On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And trho' the field the road run by

To many-towered Camelot;

And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,

The island of Shalott.


Willows whiten, aspens quiver,
Little breezes disk and shiver
Thro' the wave that runs for ever
By the island in the river

Flowing down to Camelot.

Four grey walls, and four grey towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle imbowers

The Lady of Shalott


Only reapers, reaping early,
In among the beared barley
Hear a song that echoes cheerly
From the river winding clearly,

Down to tower'd Camelot;

And by the moon the reaper weary,
Piling sheaves in uplands airy,
Listing, whispers "'tis the fairy

The Lady of Shalott."


There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay

To look down to Camelot.

She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,

The Lady of Shalott.


And moving through a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
There she sees the highway near

Winding down to Camelot;

And sometimes thro' the mirror blue
The Knights come riding two and two.
She hath no loyal Knight and true,

The Lady of Shalott.


But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often thro' the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and with lights

And music, went to Camelot;

Or when the Moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed.
"I am, half sick of shadow," she said,

The Lady of Shalott.


A bow-shot from her bower-eaves,
He rode between the barley sheaves,
The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves,
And flamed upon the brazen greaves,

Of bold Sir Lancelot.

A red-cross knight for ever kneel'd
To a lady in his shield,
That sparkled on the yellow field,

Beside remote Shalott.


His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd;
On burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode;
From underneath his helmet flow'd
His coal-black curls as on he rode,

As he rode down to Camelot.

And from the bank and from the river
He flashed into the crystal mirror,
"Tirra lirra," by the river

Sang Sir Lancelot.


She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro' the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,

She look'd down to Camelot.

Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried

The Lady of Shalott.


In the stormy east-wind straining,
The pale yellow woods were waning,
The broad stream in his banks complaining.
Heavily the low sky raining

Over tower'd Camelot;

Down she cam and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And round the prow she wrote

The Lady of Shalott.


Down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance -
With a glassy countenance

She looked to Camelot.

And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and shown she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,

The Lady of Shalott.


Heard a carol, mournful, holy,
Chanted loudly, chanted slowly,
Till her blood was frozen slowly,
And her eyes were darkened wholly,

Turn'd to tower'd Camelot.

For ere she reach'd upon the tide
The first house by the water-side,
Singing in her song she died,

The Lady of Shalott.


Under tower and balcony,
By garden-wall and gallery,
A gleaming shape she floated by,
Dead-pale between the houses high,

Silent into Camelot.

And out upon the wharfs they came,
Knight and Burgher, Lord and Dame,
And round the prow they read her name,

The Lady of Shalott.


Who is this? And what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
They crossed themselves for fear,

The Knights at Camelot;

But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, "she has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,

The Lady of Shalott

White Galactic Wizard

I Harmonize in order to Enchant
Modeling Receptivity
I seal the Output of Timelessness
With the Galactic tone of Integrity
I am guided by the power of Endlessness

You are deeply, fully and forever loved, and nothing you do can change that!

"Love is the emblem of eternity;
it confounds all notions of time;
effaces all memory of beginning,
all fear of an end."
- Madame de Stael

"Love reminds you that nothing else matters."
- Amy Bushell

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
-Charles Dickens

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it is willing to see less."
- Will Moss

"Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me."
Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the Whole Sky."
-Hafiz

"The flame of love
is not different from you;
it is you.
It isn't that love is there
and you are here.
You and love
are one and the same."
- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

"With open hands
the lord gives and gives and gives.
Simple, constant giving is the true nature of love."
- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

"Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances
and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature."
- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

"Worship love.
Show only scenes of love to the witness behind your eyes.
Let all your acts be full of love.
Let your love for cows, trees, flowers, and fruits grow each day,
for love is the basis of all."
- Baba Muktananda

"Love is the inner, sensational, pulsating,
secret thing that takes place deep inside.
You don't give or take love: love arises and manifest within on its own.
When that happens, it just flows to others;
it is not something you can give or take.
You can experience that love by turning inside."
- Baba Muktananda

"The inner joy is God's love."
-Baba Muktananda

"Love is the supreme attainment.
Without love, everything is useless.
The world manifests through the power of God's love,
it is sustained by love, and it will ultimately merge into love.
That love throbs within us alt all times.
Siddha Yoga is the attainment of love."
-Baba Muktananda

Love, like a river, will cut a new path
whenever it meets an obstacle.
- Crystal Middlemas

"Love feels no burden,
thinks nothing of trouble,
attempts what is above its strength,
pleads no excuse of impossibility...
It is therefore able to undertake all things,
and it completes many things,
and warrants them to take effect,
where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
Love is watchful and sleeping, slumbereth not.
Though weary, it is not tired;
though pressed, it is not straitened;
though alarmed, it is not confounded..."
- Thomas A. Kempis

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear."
- John 4:18

"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world."
-Eckhart Tolle

"Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not really of this world."
-Eckhart Tolle

"how do you measure a year in the life?
How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of love"
-RENT The Musical

"I trust my soul My only goal is just To be
There's only now There's only here
Give in to love Or live in fear
No other path No other way No day but today..."
-RENT The Musical

DANTE'S PRAYER:

When the dark wood fell before me
And all the paths were overgrown
When the priests of pride say there is no other way
I tilled the sorrows of stone

I did not believe because I could not see
Though you came to me in the night
When the dawn seemed forever lost
You showed me your love in the light of the stars

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Then the mountain rose before me
By the deep well of desire
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and the fire

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Though we share this humble path, alone
How fragile is the heart
Oh give these clay feet wings to fly
To touch the face of the stars

Breathe life into this feeble heart
Lift this mortal veil of fear
Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears
We'll rise above these earthly cares

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me
Please remember me
Please remember me, ...
-Loreena McKennitt