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Only love, with no thought of return, can soften the point of suffering. Most things break instead of transform because they resist. The quiet miracle of love is that without interference, it accepts whatever is tossed or dropped or placed into it, embracing it completely. Love soothes our wounds. If opened to, love will accept the angrily thrown stone, & our small tears will lose some of their burn in the great ocean of tears, & the arrow released to the bottom of the river will lose its point…..Mark Nepo

we love to love….until someone gets hurt…but how does that happen? someone stopped loving…love, the deepest form of prayer awakens healing & deserves the boundlessness of possiblitly…..when we get out of its ways, it seeps in to the darkest corners, the most tormented lives, the bleakest layers of fragility….

heart & soul & beyond…

Going beyond fear begins when we examine our fear: our anxiety, nervousness, concern, & restlessness. If we look into our fear, we find sadness. When we slow down, when we relax with our fear, we find sadness, which is calm & gentle. Sadness hits you in your heart, & your body produces a tear. Before you cry, there is a feeling in your chest & then, after that, you produce tears. You feel sad & lonely & perhaps romantic at the same time. That is the first tip of fearlessness, & the first sign of real warriorship. You might think that, when you experience fearlessness, you will see a great explosion in the sky or hear the opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, but it doesn’t happen that way. Discovering fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart….Chogyam Trungpa