Journeys bring power and love
Back into you. If you can’t go somewhere,
Move in the passageways of the self.
They are like shafts of light,
Always changing, and you change
When you explore them.
– Rumi
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You find a flower half-buried in leaves,
And in your eye its very fate resides.
Loving beauty, you caress the bloom;
Soon enough, you’ll sweep petals from the floor.
Terrible to love the lovely so,
To count your own years, to say “I’m old,”
To see a flower half-buried in leaves
And come face to face with what you are.
– Hanshan
As through the poplar’s gusty spire
The March wind sweeps and sings,
I sit beside the hollow fire,
And dream familiar things;
Old memories wake, faint echoes make
A murmur of dead Springs…
“Long Ago,” in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art
Conducted by William and Robert Chambers, 1868
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine,
and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
― Pablo Neruda
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena
of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
‘Jester Pure Carmine’
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. —Voltaire
‘Jester Pure Blue’
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you.
Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”
— Angelita Lim
Maverick Mist 