To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance.

To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.

To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair.

To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.

To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch.

To try and understand. To never look away.

And never, never to forget.

~Arundhati Roy

and the heart floats in a deeper love…

inquiry for today~ how will you be a Valentine?

through the hope of the ages….

Love drives you mad from revelation to revelation,

through ordeal after ordeal,

until humble and broken you are carried tenderly into the heart of the rose.

~Rumi