Thoughts on Love

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The moment you have in your heart this extra-ordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is tranformed.
J. Krishnamuriti

Touched by An Angel

We, unaccustomed to courage

exiles from delight

live coiled in shells of loneliness

until love leaves its high holy temple

and comes into our sight

to liberate us into life.

Love arrives

and in its train come ecstasies

old memories of pleasure

ancient histories of pain.

Yet if we are bold,

love strikes away the chains of fear

from our souls..

We are weaned from our timidity

In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all
we are and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

Maya Angelou