Love is a risk. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose.
Whether it’s right or wrong, misery or joy, love doesn’t have
any space for mistakes — only lessons. ~Unknown

If your cat’s eyes are closed, it’s not necessarily because it’s tired. A sign of closed eyes means your cat is happy or pleased. Collectively, kittens yawn about 200 million time per hour. Cats have a 5 toes on their front paws and 4 on each back paw. Source: AnimalPlanet

The wise man in a storm prays to God, not for safety from danger;
but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
~John Milton

When we look deeply into a flower, we see the elements that have come together to allow it to manifest. We can see clouds manifesting as rain. Without the rain, nothing can grow. When I touch the flower, I’m touching the cloud and touching the rain. This is not just poetry, it’s reality. If we take the clouds and the rain out of the flower, the flower will not be there. With the eye of the Buddha, we are able to see the clouds and the rain in the flower. We can touch the sun without burning our fingers. Without the sun nothing can grow, so it’s not possible to take the sun out of the flower. The flower cannot be as a separate entity; it has to inter-be with the light, with the clouds, with the rain. The word “interbeing” is closer to reality that the word “being.” Being really means interbeing. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

May 8, 2015.

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself. ~Thich Nhat Hanh