Love expects nothing

Well, what does work then? The only thing that works (if we really practice) is a desire not to have something for myself but to support all life, including individual relationships. Now you may say, "Well, that sounds nice, I'll do that!" But nobody really wants to do that. We don't want to support others. To truly support somebody means that you give them everything and expect nothing. You might give them your time, your work, your money, anything. "If you need it, I'll give it to you."Love expects nothing. Instead of that we have these games: "I am going to communicate so our relationship will be better," which really means, "I'm going to communicate so you'll see what I want." The underlying expectation we bring to those games insures that relationships won't work. If we really see that, then a few of us will begin to understand the next step, of seeing another way of being. We may get a glimpse of it now and then: "Yes, I can do this for you, I can support your life and I expect nothing. Nothing."

Relationships Don't Work - from Everyday Zen: Love & Work by Charlotte Joko Beck from Amazon com

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Saint Francis of Assisi

I have spread my dreams under your feet

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known.
Love needs no logic for its mission.
Charles A. Lindbergh

Long after moments of closeness have passed

Long after moments of closeness have passed
A part of you remains with me
And warms the places your hands have touched
And hastens my heart for your return.
Robert Sexton

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

There is no remedy for love but to love more

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

Vous qui souffrez parce que vous aimez, aimez plus encore

Vous qui souffrez parce que vous aimez, aimez plus encore. Mourir d’amour, c’est en vivre…
Victor Hugo