21 posts tagged “love”
I'm loving this song
"In order to create
there must be dynamic force,
and what force is more potent than love."
~Igor Stravinsky
To love and be loved
is to feel the sun from both sides.
~David Viscott
Love this
...wanted to share
with my favorite vox friends ;o)
Give love.
Give silently.
Don't tell people what to do.
Instead, just support them with your love.
That's the best gift of All.
~J. Rodger
It takes only a minute to get
a crush on someone,
an hour to like someone,
and a day to love someone.
But it takes a lifetime
to forget someone.
~Author Unknown
Only a few days before Christmas...and family stress is already creeping up on me. And I do understand that aggression and anger can surface, and potentially ruin this special time of year.
To help "talk me down," I am posting this inspirational message from the Daily Om. This passage speaks to Loving What You Hate, and understanding your relationship with anger. It reminds me that releasing my frustration and forgiving is a better way to live. And it certainly makes for a healthier holiday..
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Hatred can be irrational, and it has a greater impact on the individual who hates than the person or object being hated. Yet overcoming hatred is difficult because hatred reinforces itself and causes greater enmity to come into being. The most powerful tool one can use to combat hatred is love. Deciding to love what you hate, whether this is a person, situation, or a part of yourself, can create a profound change in your feelings and your experience. There is little room for anger, dislike, bitterness, or resentment when you are busy loving what you hate. The practice of loving what you hate can transform and shift your emotions from hatred to love, because there is no room for hatred in a space occupied by love.
Granted, it is difficult to forgo judging someone, love your enemy, and seek the good in situations that seem orchestrated to cause you pain or anger. But in deciding to love what you hate, you become one less person adding negativity to the universe. On a simple level, loving what you hate can help you enjoy your life more. On a more complex level, loving what you hate sets you free because you disengage yourself from the hatred that can weigh down the soul. Responding with love to people radiating hatred transmutes their negative energy. You also empower yourself by not letting their negativity enter your personal space. Rather than lowering yourself to the level of their hatred, you give the other person an opportunity to rise above their feelings and meet you on the field of love.
Gandhi once said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Loving what you hate sends a positive, beautiful energy to people while spreading peace and harmony throughout the planet. Instead of reinforcing hatred, you become an advocate for love. Hatred responds to hate by causing anguish. But hatred responds to love by transforming into blissful peace.
The world we live in
is the legacy of those
who have gone before us.
The choices we make in it
create a legacy for
those who will follow.
~Unk.
This is for all people who (a) either love this movie, (b) who have bizarre dreams, or (c) wish Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal would have made another movie together..
Harry Burns: Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching.
I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals.
I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans,
and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6.
Must have been the dismount.
Sally Albright: Well, basically it's the same dream I've been having since I was twelve.
Harry Burns: Which is?
Sally Albright: Okay, there's this guy...
Harry Burns: What does he look like?
Sally Albright: I don't know, he's just sort of faceless.
Harry Burns: Faceless guy, okay.
Sally Albright: He RIPS off my clothes.
[pause]
Harry Burns: And?
Sally Albright: That's it.
Harry Burns: That's it? Some faceless guy rips off all your clothes, and THAT'S the sex fantasy you've been having since you were twelve?
Sally Albright: Well sometimes I vary it a little.
Harry Burns: Which part?
Sally Albright: What I'm wearing.
I believe the state of the economy and the election has divided many people instead of bringing folks together. We will get through these tough times by supporting each other (even if we don't always agree).
We are more alike than different, regardless of our age, gender, race, background..we are all connected on this earth. I am reminded of this fact by Dr. Maya Angelou's latest book "Letter to My Daughter." On a recent Oprah show, Dr Angelou spoke about the greatest lesson she would like to share:
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This condition that allows us to like somebody. With love, we may be able to look through complexion and see community"
While so much in the world begs us to fixate on negativity and how different we are from one another, Dr. Angelou says humans are so much more alike than we dare to realize.
"Everybody who wants a job wants a good job, wants to be paid a little more than she's worth—not enough to be embarrassed, but just enough to say, 'I'm making it over.' Everybody in the world who wants children, wants healthy children. Everyone in the world wants safe streets—even those who make the streets unsafe," she says. "In Birmingham, Alabama, or in Birmingham, England; Paris, France, or Paris, Texas…everybody wants somebody to love and to have the unmitigated gall to accept love in return. Everybody."
If you are able to see your fellow humans as more like you than, Maya says you will reap the rewards. "It will make you happier with yourself," she says. "And you might make some new friends who don't look like you."
