Poignantly Beautiful

He left me to explore the town and pick me up a pastry... but on another level a karmic circle of lost love and letting go finally came to a close after 30 some years. No more what-ifs only what is...

Poignantly beautiful.

Salies-de-Béarn, France. March 2014

Ramadan Kareem

The foundation and the walls of a spiritual life are made of self-denials and disciplines.

Stay with friends who support you in these.
Talk with them about sacred texts,
and how you're doing and how they're doing,
and keep your practices together.

~Rumi~

Ramadan Kareem and blessed be

Compassion

Compassion is not something outside of ourselves. 

It lies latent within us until some event or phenomena comes along and triggers it. 

We can either bring it out of ourselves or bury it deeper inside. 

Samsāra

Man is the highest form of life on earth:
To become a noble human being
Is rare fortune--this is the teaching of the East;
To be a man is wholeness, to be an animal mere part.
The human state is the gate to salvation,
But not without effort, for the path is steep.

~Frithjof Schuon~
an excerpt