Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept.

It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.

~Sri Chinmoy

when it’s hard to just be….

inquiry for today~ will you find your way home?

measuring love….

Embark on the longer and wearier and harder road of life.

You will have to multiply many times your two-fold being

and complicate your complexities still further.

Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul,

you will have to absorb more and more of the world

and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul,

if you are ever to find peace.

It is only by nurturing and expanding the soul that the self, fluid and fractal,

can be held with tenderness.

~Herman Hesse