No creature is fully itself

till it is, like the dandelion,

opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun,

the entire living cosmos.

~D.H. Lawrence

Will the day come when this battle,
born of confusion, will end?
It is different things to different people.

Can the reality be that which is hidden?
The reason is mere existence.
Still, memories can be believed.

Be not afraid. Entrust your body to
the soothing waves of your memories.
By and by, your fleeting rest will be over…

and everything will begin.

-Yensid

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
- Stanley Horowitz

“Spring comes with flowers,
autumn with the moon,
summer with the breeze,
winter with snow.
When idle concerns don’t fill
your
thoughts,
that’s your best season.”
- Wu-Men

Just a few spoken words…
that can mean so much.

You can gain peace of mind
if you look beyond the many…
winding pathways and
steep mountains of life.

Please always be true to yourself…
whenever making a promise.
Because you are the person…
who has to live inside yourself!

Sometimes promises are made…
to ease someone’s pain.
Sometimes they are made…
to secure one’s happiness.
Sometimes they are made in haste…
ending up only to become broken.

So before making a promise…
please look into that mirror.
Just so you’ll know in your heart…
you’ll be able to live with yourself!
- Doug Lang

Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
The end lost in dream,
They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start.

Freighted with hope,
Crimsoned with joy,
We scatter the leaves of our opening rose;
Their widening scope,
Their distant employ,
We never shall know. And the stream as it flows
Sweeps them away,
Each one is gone
Ever beyond into infinite ways.
We alone stay
While years hurry on,
The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.

-Amy Lowell