Don’t Ask Me About Love
What grace, what wisdom will give me wings and make my life equal to a dove, that I may rest?
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Is human life really like a meadow? There the lush green grass wet from the morning dew bends its head and supports tender flowers and makes them grow—but, oh! Under cover silently waits a serpent! My feet look for another path to step away from the foe…
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I love a solitary life, it includes the mountaintops, the streams that rush down into the valley and the dark woods where I like to linger and listen to the owl, or the golden-winged warbler, a delight to me, as all songs that come out of the throats of little birds—they have sight of Heaven!
I prefer their company to those with deaf ears and cold hearts and blind minds—or bruised senses.
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Don't ask me about love— it changes by the minute, makes some blind to its radiance.
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In some moments I ask Intelligence, "What is it I need to see?"
No answer!
But when you call, the answer comes immediately!
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A tranquil peace brings comfort free from the sneers of pain!
Free from the tearing winds—and I endure,
and smile…
Even so, my thoughts continue to speak to me about deep wounds and an injured heart!
Ah, I know not to speak about problems but to them!
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When Gautama the Buddha sat under the Botree he made a great discovery: "Only love goes from me and only love comes to me!”
From the shores there blows a western wind and awakes the flowers in the grassy meadow from dreaming, and I—shed a tear.
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It is impossible to define Love as it is to define the infinite! And above all it defines itself and the universe. To understand it is to understand Life!
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I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not really what I meant.
So, I drew a circle and took you in!
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I'm only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything. But, I'm always willing to do something, I do not refuse to do anything that I can do!
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To live is to express yourself. “So let your works lead your words.”
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Will you seek me far off, or in the here and now?
I see you face to face.......
2018, rev. 2021, 2022
