December 2011
10 Ways to Love Others →
thelittlesea:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse...
I am a forest, & a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...
Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees, I will lay on the moss, & breathe in the scent of mushrooms, flowers & wet soil.”
—Le’echappee, LD
“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.”
— Eckhart Tolle
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”...
“However distasteful is the bitterness of patience, it will eventually taste delicious.”
—Rum
“i like people too much or not at all.”
—Sylvia Plath
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
— Thich Nhat...
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane....
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, & sometimes your smile is the source of your joy.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh