"Let everything happen to you ...."

Let everything happen to you

Beauty and terror

Just keep going

No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke

"The minute I heard ...."

The minute I heard my first love story

I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.

They’re in each other all along.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.

When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias!

And the difference between them.

Rumi

"Be like a tree ...."

"Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause.

Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward,

bend to the winds of heaven,

    - and learn tranquility."

"In Time of Silver Rain"

In time of silver rain

The earth

Puts forth new life again,

Green grasses grow

And flowers lift their heads,

And over all the plain

The wonder spreads

     Of life,

     Of life,

     Of life!

In time of silver rain

The butterflies

Lift their silken wings

To catch a rainbow cry,

And trees put forth

New leaves to sing

In joy beneath the sky

As down the roadway

Passing boys and girls

Go singing, too,

In time of silver rain

     When spring

     And life

     Are new.

Langston Hughes

"What kind of life do you live ...."

What kind of life do you live, do you will only one thing, and what is this one thing?

Soren Kierkegaard, 

“Purity of Heart is To Will One Thing”

"It is impossible to live wisely ...."

It is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus