From my Therapist, Who Kicks Much Ass

A Valentine thought...



Now is the time to know that all you do is sacred.

Now is the time to understand

that all your ideas of right and wrong

were just a child’s training wheels

to be laid aside

when you can finally live

with veracity

and love.



Hafiz, Persian poet (c. 1320-1389)

Hmmm... This Seems to Be a Theme...

From Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter

For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

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"Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we
will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the
history of the world, humans will have discovered fire."

-Teilhard de Chardin

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The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well.
As a matter of fact I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!

-Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because
I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love."

-Leo Tolstoy

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"Any thought that is not filled with love seems unholy."

-André Gide

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"Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse
you; pray for those who treat you spitefully."

-Jesus Christ

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"Right now, we are appearing as the very light of consciousness, alive as
love, although we may require some training, like an artist would, to
fully offer our self as love's gift."

-David Deida from "Waiting to Love"

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"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

-Thoreau

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"When I love, I love so much, it's dangerous."

-Nicole Kidman

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"To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's
sweet."

-Pablo Neruda

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When I think of you,
fireflies in the marsh rise
like the soul's jewels,
lost to eternal longing,
abandoning my body

-Izumi Shikibu

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Pillowed on your thighs in a dream garden,
little flower with its perfumed stamen,
singing, sipping from the stream of you --
sunset, moonlight -- our song continues.

-Ikkyu Sojun

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Libra! I'm hereby
declaring a love emergency. Right now you need love more than you need
food and drink. More than that: You need to *crave* love with an almost
crazed lyrical ferocity . . . with a reverent, burning hunger that some
traditional astrologers would say Libras aren't capable of. At this pivotal
moment, you've got to find a way to claim Erica Jong's subversive words
as your own: "Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth
fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is,
if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."

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And just for you, blckwngdorcl...

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Taurus! The Goddess
of Love, Aphrodite Herself, has asked me to remind you that you have
always been in love. You will always be in love. In fact, it is impossible
for you *not* to be in love. You'd be unable to get out of bed each morning
unless there were someone or something that roused your heart and
stirred your imagination. So please just admit that you are alive because
of love; that you are *made* of love. Now write a list of the ten things you
love most, and devote some time in each of the next seven days to
expressing your appreciation.