Love Liberates

“Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold—that’s ego. Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says, ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go.’”

—Maya Angelou

Spring

It was fragrant and soft—the softest air I’d ever known

—and dark, and mysterious, and buzzing. 

—Jack Kerouac

Walk With Me?

Dream

hello, hello, hello

Low tide

स्वाधिष्ठान

Cathedral Grove

Tree Nymph Butterfly

Missing You

Feels Like Home

Gratitude

Whatever it is,

I cannot understand it,

although gratitude

stubbornly overcomes me

until I’m reduced to tears.

—Saigyō

Duality

You cannot by any means diverge from the Tao. You may love life or you may loathe it, yet your loving and loathing are themselves manifestations of life.

If you seek union with Reality your very seeking is Reality, and how can you say that you have ever lost union?

—Alan Watts