“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”
– Hermann Hesse
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
Mr. (Fred) Rogers
“A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.” – Benjamin Spock
“…in humans playfulness can blend with productivity. When productive work is suffused with the qualities of play–that is, with freedom, creativity, and imagination–we experience that work as play.” – Peter Gray
You have the right to protect your energy. If something doesn’t feel good for you, don’t do it. If someone doesn’t feel good to be around, leave. Of course there are times we need to be flexible. There are times when we need to lean in Rather than move away from the discomfort. But it’s ok to also draw a line in the sand and choose to get your lessons in a gentler way. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is to say no and choose a lighter path.
~wonderful words from Sheleana Aiyana
“An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love’ — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.”
Adrienne Rich
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
W.B. Yeats
“Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson