“What you are, the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.“- Krishnamurti

A Fortress To Protect Freedom And Liberty

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Elizabeth Barret Browning 1806-1861

A WOMAN'S SHORTCOMINGS

She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,
She has counted six, and over,
Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried -
Oh, each a worthy lover!
They "give her time"; for her soul must slip
Where the world has set the grooving;
She will lie to none with her fair red lip:
But love seeks truer loving.
She trembles her fan in a sweetness dumb,
As her thoughts were beyond recalling;
With a glance for one, and a glance for some,
From her eyelids rising and falling;
Speaks common words with a blushful air,
Hears bold words, unreproving;
But her silence says - what she never will swear -
And love seeks better loving.
Go, lady! lean to the night-guitar,
And drop a smile to the bringer;
Then smile as sweetly, when he is far,
At the voice of an in-door singer.
Bask tenderly beneath tender eyes;
Glance lightly, on their removing;
And join new vows to old perjuries -
But dare not call it loving!
Unless you can think, when the song is done,
No other is soft in the rhythm;
Unless you can feel, when left by One,
That all men else go with him;
Unless you can know, when unpraised by his breath,
That your beauty itself wants proving;
Unless you can swear "For life, for death!" -
Oh, fear to call it loving!
Unless you can muse in a crowd all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love, as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbehoving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past -
Oh, never call it loving!

Stephen Hawking

There is no way to remove the observer -- us -- from our perceptions of the world.

Across the Universe

Clear

"Observatory"

"When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Faith

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
~William Blake

Journey - Sweet And Simple

Journey - Escape

Reflection

"Thank You"

"Oaks are the true conservatives;
They hold old leaves till summer gives
A green exchange."
~Roy Helton

Projection

Be careful about projecting your own motives onto the behavior of others. Try to see others as they actually are, not as another version of yourself, or another version of someone from your past. Treat each person with the respect that you would show the person you most admire on Earth, and you will be less likely to act with your unconscious prejudice. Try hard, it's important, not just for them, but for your own heart.

Soul Mates

What if you meet your soul mate, and you are each very respectful of one another, and of life itself, and you love deeply, laugh often, and live well every day of your life?

Quick Cup Of Coffee

Quick Cup

I Am

Each is "I"
and all are "me".

To every single heart that beats,
all other hearts are "you".

There is no one who stands closer to another;
there is no one who did not have a mother;
no one.

When words are spoken,
they are spoken by an "I",
and they are heard by a "me".

There is no one who does not belong;
there is no one who was born wrong
or uninvited;
no one.

Wit and wisdom;
misery, elation;
laughter and song!

Emanations from the depths my soul.
I do not exist as someone else's "you", or "her", or "they".

There is no one who does not originate their own laughter;
there is no one who was born before or after
the beginning of life, of humankind.


Each is "I"
and all are "me".


~M. Black

Queen of Stars

Not at Home,
Unaccounted for-
Where art Thou, my playful one?
The darkness of the mind assails me!

Friends

Your friends are the ones who show trustworthiness when they stick around after you answer the question, "How are you?"

"Meeting"

And

It is finished.

Thank you for helping me to remember.
Thank you for helping me to unravel the knot, to find the source of the pain, to help me face my deepest sin, my betrayal.



Goodbye, see you on the next go-round, perhaps~

peace, love, light, as always and as Always,
mon amour

Shine

The shine that catches the eye and is gone;
an elusive glint that cannot be followed
or seen from straight on,
only from the corner of the eye;
like a moonglow firefly;
an ember falling from my hair
that spits and flares and disappears
before it can be captured;
it is only the dust on my coat
from the road Home.


~M.Black

Pleiades

Pleiades

"when i look up at the stars at night
what could i find beyond the light
a hundred million worlds that we ignore
who can restrain pleiades
or know the laws of heavenly's
how many times have we been wrong before
far off in the field i see a castle
today the people gather at the pole
he tried to tell us all the world was spherical
they burned his body but not his soul"

~King's X, "Pleiades"
from Gretchen Goes To Nebraska

Roses Can Prick

Try Treating Others With The Friendship, The Love, The Respect, The Attention, The Empathy That You Want For Yourself, Try Taking Accountability For The Way You Have Acted, Now And Whenever. Try Trusting That Other People Are Worthy And Are Capable Of Forgiveness. Try Letting Go Of The Resentment You Have Toward People Who Have Done You No Wrong. Try Being A Genuine Friend To Someone Other Than Your Pre-Approved Types Of Humans. Try remembering that you are not the Owner Of Pain; you could try being a comfort to others.

"Care"