Love and Life

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

The dream is awakened when thinking
I love you, and life begins
when saying I love you,
and joy moves like blood
when embracing someone with love.

As the fire of music awakens the soul of a composer, love sounds within us where no one else can hear.

The voice of love has many cadences and not all of them easily recognisable. Also what one perceives as the voice of love, another may interpret as something other. It is up to each of us to ensure that our intent is clear... so that those of us who do not know each other, to know that the intent behind a thought, a word or an action was to show or voice love in some way, can understand that the love is there.

More and more every day I come to realise how truly blessed I am. As I settle back into a sense of self and peace, more and more I feel the love that it given to me, that buoys my inner self and allows me to live, in love; in love for all life.

Mir puts up with so much from me, so much of my silly foibles, and insecurities, and baggage. She gives me all that I could wish for. I only want to be able to do the same.

If I can just stop turning things around into self focus; If I can just resist the temptation to impose 'self blame' in situations where things go wrong - to not hear that blame coming from others because it's what is in my heart, then I will want for nothing... I can simply be

Naked Before the World.

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

Everyone's bald underneath their hair
--Susan McHenry

When we hesitate in being direct we unknowingly slip something on, some addedlayer of protection that keeps us from feelng the world...

Early morning conversations wake me to a realisation that for all the progress I've been making to where I want to be, I'm still not direct enough, and still nowhere near open enough about one thing or another. One of those things is my faith/way of life. I want to try and remedy that, so that this aspect of so much is open to understanding - so that I can stand naked and bald before the world and my loved ones in it.

I'd thought, a while back, about getting a book, and going through an annotating it with the ways I agree or disagree with the various things written, but I don't know how well that would work. I'll have to give it some more thought... but it's something I want to do.