Category Archives: Love

A fire to be kindled

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures Response: Learning is not something that ends once we leave the classroom. We can constantly take new experiences and … Continue reading →

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What is essential about you?

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Well, what is essential about you? And who are those who have helped you become the person that you are? Anyone who has ever graduated from a college, anyone who has ever been able to sustain a good work, has … Continue reading →

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Love doesn’t just sit there

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. –Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (1971) Response: Love is not just the event of a day or … Continue reading →

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To be loved

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

To be loved, be lovable. –Ovid, Ars Amatoria Response: If you want to be loved, open yourself up to love from all places. Let yourself absorb the love of the world, make yourself amenable to love, and love yourself as … Continue reading →

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Will you still need me

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

I could be handy mending a fuse When your lights have gone. You can knit a sweater by the fireside Sunday mornings go for a ride. Doing the garden, digging the weeds, Who could ask for more? Will you still … Continue reading →

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There is much that is fair

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. –J. … Continue reading →

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Many strokes

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak. –William Shakespeare, Henry VI(c. 1591) Response: Stubbornness and Perseverance don’t always pay off, but if we continue to strive for our best, we can achieve things … Continue reading →

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Amen of the universe

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

Love works magic. It is the final purpose Of the world story, The Amen of the universe. — Novalis, Blüthenstaub-Fragmente (1798) Response: I can’t even imagine the world without love. Not just romantic love, but familial love and friendship. In … Continue reading →

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No matter how imperfect

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

“When one has once fully entered the realm of Love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for Love.” Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love (1847) Response: I can’t even imagine … Continue reading →

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Remembering you

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

End of April Under a cherry tree I found a robin’s egg, broken, but not shattered. I had been thinking of you, and was kneeling in the grass among fallen blossoms when I saw it: a blue scrap, a delicate … Continue reading →

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