umi and love

“I felt in need of a great pilgrimage.
So I sat still for three days,
and God came to me.”

— Kabir, Love Poems from God

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”

– Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

“Don’t stumble over something behind you.”

– Seneca

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

– André Gide

“When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.’”

– Kahlil Gibran

“What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive you and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”

– Carl Jung

“When we pray, we join the orbit of love: we flow with the rivers, sway with the trees, dance with the moon and sing with the birds. When we pray, we join with what is and has always been, in constant praise of the Divine.”

– A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”

– Kahlil Gibran