There is a famous verse in the scriptures of India: “Truly the wise proclaim that love is the only path. Love is the only God and love is the only scripture.” Impress this verse upon your memory and chant it often if you want to realize your dreams of growth. Let us allow someone to taste our love and let us taste someone else’s love. Love flowing into the life of another is the source of our happiness, and love flowing into our own life is the source of another’s happiness. This is a universal law.

Yes, to give love is to give life. Love is the highest gift. Even great emperors have begged for it. With love, one lives. Without love, one dies. Love is simply sweet. It is blissful compassion. It isn’t far away. It’s as close as our heart. We can find it living there without walking a single step to search for it.

~Swami Kripalu Bapuji

I can always choose some unique way of being…

inquiry for today~ there is a wiser way…..

a new calling…

may never fully heal

and will likely become

wide open spaces

be careful to not fill them

with just anything or anyone

your wounds aren’t supposed

to become attics for you to hoard

unnecessary junk

these holes in our hearts

are holy sites

and we should treat

them as such

so when visiting your old wounds

make sure to take your shoes off

and turn off your cellphone

sit by candlelight

and watch how the shadows

tell the story how brave you are

to survive

~john roedel