love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds

-eec

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

(Thoreau)

The forest waves, the morning breaks,
The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be
And life pulsates in rock or tree.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"What is to give light must endure burning."

"The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our 'natural' condition."
- Bell Hooks, All About Love

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions"
-Rilke

"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart" ~ Kahlil Gibran

"People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore" Andre Gide

"I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells."
-Crazy Horse