“As you see, within our bodies each of us has the elements needed to produce phosphorus….

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment (combustion of phosphorus in a bell jar), we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love, the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.

For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it.

Each person has to discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul.

That fire, in short, is its food. If one doesn’t find out in time what will set off these explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted.”

Tita’s doctor in the movie “Like water for chocolate”

To experience and love the God of beauty and goodness even in what is ugly and in what is evil, and to long, in extreme love, to heal it of its ugliness and its evil, that is true virtue and morality.

Sri Aurobindo

This made me dance in the yard… might go out in the dark later to dance some more…  This is the kind of dancing that makes one grateful to be alive and really makes you feel your connection between heaven and earth…

Lena

Knowledge is of the past.

Wisdom is of the future.

Lumbee

To call it
semen
is to thrust
an insanity
deep inside our culture:
that men plow women
and plant their seed
when, in fact,
what they are doing
is pollinating
flowers.

Now.
Doesn’t that change everything between us?

Stephen Harrod Buhner

The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgement. In life’s curriculum, it is the opposite of judgement. Through judgement a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.

Glenda Green

I would not interfere with any creed of yours or want to appear

that I have all the answers or cures…

There is so much to know… so many things are true…

The way my feet must go may not be the best for you, and so

I give this spark of what is light to me -

to guide you through the dark, but not tell you what to see…

Remember that the negative quality of emotions are associated with illusions,

with anything but the here and now.

The positive thing about the sceptic is that he considers everything possible.

Thomas Mann