1. When true love is there

    Comment May 30, 2020

    True love does not just choose one person. When true love is there, you shine like a lamp. You don’t just shine on one person in the room. That light you emit is for everyone in the room. If you really have love in you, everyone around you will profit—not only humans, but animals, plants, and minerals. Love, true love, is that. True love is equanimity. — Thich Nhat Hanh

    My father’s graveyard on May 16, 2020

    Uncle Yoeun Nget’s graveyard on May 16, 2020. Uncle passed away on April 26, 2020

    Little sister Alanthara’s graveyard on May 16, 2020

  2. True love and home grown tomatoes

    Comment September 3, 2017

    Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
    What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
    Only two things that money can’t buy
    That’s true love and home grown tomatoes.

    ~John Denver

     

  3. If you develop love truly great

    Comment November 14, 2016

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    LOVE

    If you develop love truly great,
    rid of the desire to hold and possess.
    That strong, clean love untarnished by lust,
    that love which does not expect to be repayed,
    that love which is firm but not grasping,
    enduring but not tied down,
    gentle and settled,
    diamond-hard but unhurting,
    helpful but not interfering,
    cool and refreshing,
    giving more than taking,
    dignified but not proud,
    soft but not weak,
    that love which leads to Enlightenment,
    then you will be washed of all ill-will.

    Gurulugomi (Buddhist Sage~12th Century AD)

  6. That special someone

    Comment August 19, 2015

    Happiness is meeting that special someone that you can share your world with by making her laugh, acting silly showing her compassion at her most vulnerable times and just being there anytime she needs support. On the other hand you must also let her into your world as well by showing her your vulnerability of being a man who lives and breathes and makes mistake and not a superman she dreams. Only then can you co-exist together and find true happiness. ~Unknown

  7. A soul you can connect

    Comment August 19, 2015

    There is nothing better on this earth, than a soul you can connect with on every level.   
    ~Unknown

  8. In a deep relationship

    Comment August 13, 2015

    In a deep relationship, there’s no longer a boundary between you and the other person. You are her and she is you. Your suffering is her suffering. Your understanding of your own suffering helps your loved one to suffer less. Suffering and happiness are no longer individual matters. What happens to your loved one happens to you. What happens to you happens to your loved one.

    In true love, there’s no more separation or discrimination. His happiness is your happiness. Your suffering is his suffering. You can no longer say, “That’s your problem.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

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  9. In a true love relationship

    Comment July 29, 2015

    by Ven. Dr. Sri Dhammananda

    There are different kinds of love, and these are variously expressed as motherly love, brotherly love, sensual love, emotional love, sexual love, selfish love, selfless love, and universal love.

    If people develop only their carnal or selfish love towards each other, that type of love cannot last long. In a true love relationship, one should not ask how much one can get, but how much one can give.

    When beauty, complexion and youth start to fade away, a husband who considers only the physical aspects of love may think of acquiring another young one. That type of love is lust. If a man really develops love as an expression of human concern for another being, he will not lay emphasis only on the external beauty and physical attractiveness of his partner. The beauty and attractiveness of his partner should be in his heart and mind, not in what he sees. Likewise, the wife who follows Buddhist teachings will never neglect her husband even though he has become old, poor or sick.

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  10. True love is a sacred flame

    Comment July 6, 2015

    Jendhamuni holding camera

    Be truthful, gentle and fearless. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

    True love is a sacred flame
    That burns eternally,
    And none can dim its special glow
    Or change its destiny.
    True love speaks in tender tones
    And hears with gentle ear,
    True love gives with open heart
    And true love conquers fear.
    True love makes no harsh demands
    It neither rules nor binds,
    And true love holds with gentle hands
    The hearts that it entwines.

    ~Unknown Author

     

     

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