Touch me deep...

[Nirvanadragones]

Revelation...

:”… Wisdom is achieved very slowly. This is because intellectual knowledge, easily acquired, must be transformed into ‘emotional’, or subconscious, knowledge. Once transformed, the imprint is permanent. Behavioral practice is the necessary catalyst of this reaction. Without action, the concept will wither and fade. Theoretical knowledge without practical application is not enough.”


From: Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr Brian Weiss

 

[Nirvanadragones]

A one liner email...

"I can't get you off my mind."

Sigh... blush... sigh...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I was recently told....."Thank you for being in my life"

That is the highest compliment anyone can give you.

 

[Guest]

My God daughter Holly this afternoon said that she has three mums and she loves us all three the same

 

[Guest]

beautiful people who care enough about so called strangers to talk and talk honestly.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

On the Road to the Sea: Charlotte Mew

We passed each other, turned and stopped for half an hour, then went our way,
I who make other women smile did not make you--
But no man can move mountains in a day.
So this hard thing is yet to do.

But first I want your life:--before I die I want to see
The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes,
There is nothing gay or green there for my gathering, it may be,
Yet on brown fields there lies
A haunting purple bloom: is there not something in grey skies
And in grey sea?
I want what world there is behind your eyes,
I want your life and you will not give it me.

Now, if I look, I see you walking down the years,
Young, and through August fields--a face, a thought, a swinging dream
perched on a stile--;
I would have liked (so vile we are!) to have taught you tears
But most to have made you smile.
To-day is not enough or yesterday: God sees it all--
Your length on sunny lawns, the wakeful rainy nights--; tell me--;
(how vain to ask), but it is not a question--just a call--;
Show me then, only your notched inches climbing up the garden wall,
I like you best when you are small.

Is this a stupid thing to say
Not having spent with you one day?
No matter; I shall never touch your hair
Or hear the little tick behind your breast,
Still it is there,
And as a flying bird
Brushes the branches where it may not rest
I have brushed your hand and heard
The child in you: I like that best
So small, so dark, so sweet; and were you also then too grave and wise?
Always I think. Then put your far off little hand in mine;--
Oh! let it rest;
I will not stare into the early world beyond the opening eyes,
Or vex or scare what I love best.
But I want your life before mine bleeds away--
Here--not in heavenly hereafters--soon,--
I want your smile this very afternoon,
(The last of all my vices, pleasant people used to say,
I wanted and I sometimes got--the Moon!)

You know, at dusk, the last bird's cry,
And round the house the flap of the bat's low flight,
Trees that go black against the sky
And then--how soon the night!

No shadow of you on any bright road again,
And at the darkening end of this--what voice? whose kiss? As if you'd say!
It is not I who have walked with you, it will not be I who take away
Peace, peace, my little handful of the gleaner's grain
From your reaped fields at the shut of day.

Peace! Would you not rather die
Reeling,--with all the cannons at your ear?
So, at least, would I,
And I may not be here
To-night, to-morrow morning or next year.
Still I will let you keep your life a little while,
See dear?
I have made you smile.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things."

Mary Oliver: Wild Geese.

 

[Samandiriel]

"No one can judge you or has the right to judge you harder than you judge yourself. It's finding the way to love yourself that becomes the goal."
Abs.

 

[Guest]

"For you, anything."

(Said by my Dad to me. It was just three little words, but it touched me deeper than words can express. We've always been really close, but he's never been one to show his emotions; he's never even told me he loves me, or that he's proud of me, but those three words said it all, especially the reason why it was said, how it was said, and in the moment it was said. He made me cry. )

 

[scheherazade_79]

Someone sharing their music and their life story with me. Hard to know where one ended and the other began. There are lots of different ways to get to know a person, and that one was beautiful

 

[Nirvanadragones]

And sometimes it is someone's twisted humour that touches us!

"Am I eating plenty of fruit? No, I'm giving myself cheap thrills by sticking it up my arse...
Am I getting plenty of rest? No, I'm working as a topless, bottomless go-go dancer every night...
Am I still smoking pot? Hell yes, I moved to Amsterdam last weekend"

 

[Nirvanadragones]

"the more we trust the validity of our existence, the easier it is to open up to the glories all around us"

 

[Anniejustagirl]

"So before we end and then begin
We'll drink a toast to how it's been
A few more hours to be complete
A few more nights on satin sheets
A few more times that I can say
I've loved these days "

~Billy Joel

 

[Guest]

"So before we end and then begin
We'll drink a toast to how it's been
A few more hours to be complete
A few more nights on satin sheets
A few more times that I can say
I've loved these days "

~Billy Joel

Brilliant words. Thank you.

 

[scheherazade_79]

I made friends with a whippet called Macy today. She saw me from the other side of the park, sprinted over, then jumped into my arms.

Looks like I've got all the bitches running after me these days!

 

[Nirvanadragones]

My l'il sis this morning:

"Did you know you were going to turn out to be such a good person?"

 

[scheherazade_79]

My l'il sis this morning:

"Did you know you were going to turn out to be such a good person?"

Awww... She had a point, though

 

[Nirvanadragones]

Awww... She had a point, though

Had?

 

[scheherazade_79]

Had?

It's the whole cute to minx thing all over again. I don't know what happened to you

 

[Nirvanadragones]

It's the whole cute to minx thing all over again. I don't know what happened to you

It's called "coming full circle" Ask Abs about it... she's the SME

 

[scheherazade_79]

It's called "coming full circle" Ask Abs about it... she's the SME

I know... but you achieved it in a matter of days!

 

[Anniejustagirl]

not directed toward me, but still........

Take a look in the mirror and wrap your arms around yourself. That is the first step in the right direction, like yourself. Now, smile and say, "Not only do I like myself, but that weirdo Lonely Knight likes me too, and he doesn't even know me!" Then each night after brushing your teeth, look in that same mirror and say to yourself that you did the absolute best that you could have done that day with what you had to work with. Accept the history for that day and then rest well, until the next day dawns and new history awaits to be made.

 

[damppanties]

i do hope whatever it is that is happening in your mind and heart..will eventually give you exactly that which you deserve. -- by a commentor on my poetry blog when I was going through a bad time. She didn't even know me.

Those unexpected kind moments from strangers.

 

[Anniejustagirl]

while thinking of three friends specifically and indulging in more Billy Joel.... his powerful words.....

"You've been keeping to yourself these days
Cause you're thinking everything's gone wrong
Sometimes you just want to lay down and die
That emotion can be so strong
But hold on
Till that old second wind comes along"

 

[Nirvanadragones]

A gift from a dear Friend

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/equinoxe/orange-purpleness.jpg

When a Damp, orange mess and purple Nirvana merges