The measure of realization is not only what we have seen, but the way we love.

Love reveals whether realization has become embodied and dyed into the subtle feeling body. It asks whether our realization has made us more available to our own and another’s sorrow, heartbreak, longing, and confusion.

Has awakening softened us or merely given us a more sophisticated (“spiritual”) story about ourselves?

In the end, perhaps awakening is not finally verified by the extraordinary moments in which we glimpse our true nature, but by the ordinary moments in which another person feels less alone in our presence

~Matt Licata

it’s my way and I fold in….

inquiry for today~ for the love of forgiveness….

how I choose more wisely….

The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters. meetings, introductions, which might contain the seed of depth that might be carelessly overlooked. This feeling has become a rarity, and rarer every day now that we have reached a hastier and more superficial rhythm, now that we believe we are in touch with a greater amount of people, more people, more countries. This is the illusion which might cheat us of being in touch deeply with the one breathing next to us. The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

~Anaïs Nin