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The heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H Jackson Brown Jr.
We are born of Love; love is our mother. Rumi
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the size and sorrows of men. St Augustine
Rocks and waters are words of God. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All expressions of one love. John Muir
Wise
Words - The fine quotes above point to a
universal truth; love is our most important virtue, emotion, and experience. Love
also contains many fine attributes such as kindness, compassion, and
forgiveness. It is the best education we could ever have. “Education” comes
from the Latin word "educare" meaning "to draw forth". No
one can do it for you, but we hope to help you draw forth the spark of love
within you that never goes out, and fan it into a fire or blaze to warm your
heart and soul and radiate the warmth and light to your family and friends, and
the rest of the world.
A
Word From Our Sponsor – Why do I
consider love my (and everyone else’s) main concern in life? It’s personal. Growing
up in my family, culture, and situation left me feeling alone and without a
deep feeling of being loved and cherished. My family was somewhat distant, each
dealing with their own life and problems. My parents had very difficult
childhoods and continued to struggle as adults. Dad’s parents moved around a
lot, so he stayed with one parent or the other, his sister, or family friends.
Mom’s parents divorced, remarried, then her father died, her mother had to parent
alone again.
The
difficulties, suffering, and dysfunction was like a cloud that followed them
and hung over our family also. Dad changed jobs often, also trying get rich
quick schemes that never worked out. I am very sad to say he also abused my
three sisters. Somehow, we managed to get by and seem like an average middle
class family, but the cloud was there darkening our days. None of us kids got a
college degree, but did well in the workplace anyway.
I
was neglected, and so deprived of the attention, affection, appreciation, and
affirmation children need to really thrive and prosper in so many ways. I carried
“the cloud” on to my wife, children, and others. Yet I knew deep down there was
more to life, so I took all the psychology and business classes I could at
local junior colleges. The real breakthrough was finding community, healing,
and love in spiritual and Twelve Step meetings and teachings.
It’s
a long story, much longer than this blog, but typical of the hero’s journey,
gathering allies, delving into the darkness of my dysfunctional childhood and
life, and returning to the world to share my hope, help, healing, and
happiness. I am a man transformed. My life is so wonderful now I often
weep at the fountain of love, peace, joy, gratitude, and beauty I have found
and drink from daily. Love saved my life. It still saves lives every day, and
there is nothing else that stands a chance of saving our world, so that is what
I have dedicated my life to. I hope you will join me.
So
now I begin each day with a gratitude practice, then I play with my dogs (and
my inner child), and hug, and kiss, and tell them how much I love them all day.
I make coffee for my partner and we share hugs, kisses, and cuddles (despite
our awful upbringings). I write in this blog, do chores around the house and
yard, ride bikes, tinker with my cars (models mostly), and serve at Twelve Step
meetings, retreats, and events. I keep in touch with family and friends, work
my program with my fellows. I also sing, dance, play, and spend a lot of time
enjoying nature and talking with my Higher Power. It’s a wonderful life.
Lars
The
Miracle of Love – A Course In
Miracles boils everything down to two things; love and fear. It is a simplification,
but one that holds great truth, and helps us see how we have a simple choice to
make. It is also said that “Perfect love cast out fear”, so making the choice
for love can make a huge difference in how we experience life. Unfortunately,
our familial, cultural, and societal upbringings give us a bias towards negativity
and fear we must consciously and consistently overcome by choosing love. Our
confirmation and other biases try to trick us into believing these wrongs are
right. Add to this humanities appetite for greed, conquest, subjugation, and
consumerism, and you realize living love is nothing less than heroic.
Your
Hero's Journey - The hero's
journey is a narrative structure found in many stories across many cultures
and time periods. It describes a hero's adventure, where common people are
drawn in to face great challenges, gather mentors and allies, battle with
forces of darkness, achieve victory, and return transformed with treasures. Star
Wars, the Hobbit, the Matrix, and many other stories follow this pattern.
So
too, each of us is called to our own hero’s journey through-out our lives,
great, and small. Whether it is simply working with difficult co-workers and
customers, raising a family and paying bills, or dealing with health,
relationships, or other problems, life often demands great courage and efforts.
Courage is what this is all about as in the definition of courage, “cor” is
Latin for heart, so we called to take heart with great love in the face of problems,
challenges, and difficulties.
Inner
Personas - We must also learn to understand,
accept, and love all our "inner-net" of archetype persons good and
bad to become our best selves. We can get in touch with our inner magician,
artist, warrior, hero, king or queen, and so on. It is also wise to get in
touch with our dark side through our inner demons, villains, and monsters.
Facing them honestly and fully lessens their power over us.
"It
is a frightening that man has a shadow side. The individual seldom knows
anything of this, but if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, there
emerges a raging monster. Knowing your own darkness is also the best method for
dealing with the darknesses of other people, and whatever is rejected from the
self appears in the world as an event. I must have a dark side also If I
am to be whole” Carl Jung. There is a dark side to love, through obsession,
compulsive attachment, and so forth, so we need to love our shadow side as well.
A
Full Life - Life is sunshine and roses, but
also darkness, storms, and thorns. A full life embraces it all. It is very easy
to be frightened, frustrated, angry, and depressed. But love goes further. We
must face our life situations with complete focus and clarity and learn to accept,
embrace, and love what is to find real and lasting understanding, wisdom, and
transformation.
Relative
Versus Absolute - The mind and
thinking are the limited, relative physical world, the heart and love is another,
the world of the spiritual, infinite, and absolute. I’m sure you are familiar
with the relative side, and people who only care about what you can do for
them. We have all had experiences of conditional love, as giver and
receiver. Yet in the absolute realm we can live in infinite love, peace, joy,
and beauty for ourselves and all others, as well as all life and creation. Bad
behaviors and beliefs aren’t as easy, but if we can separate them from the individual,
we stand a much better chance. How do we do that? Read on.
Out
of Body Experience - One problem is
we don't feel much anymore. A common cause for this is the neglect, abuse,
abandonment, and other traumas suffered as child. It may have been mild for some,
but extreme for many others. The stress was felt in our minds, but also very
strongly in the body. Often the stress, tension, and trauma in our heart, gut,
and body was too much to bear, so we moved out of our bodies and into our
heads. Our bodies, hearts, feelings, emotions, and truth become more of an idea
than a home and experience.
People
often share that they haven't laughed or cried for years, perhaps decades. Unfortunately,
mind can’t experience anything fully just through intellect, only with
emotions, feelings, and the heart. A vivid example is chocolate or ripe, juicy,
and delicious peach, as someone could tell you all about them in a thousand
ways, but it’s all just ideas, and nothing compared to taking a bite and
savoring it deeply with your eyes closed.
Sensational! - Our senses are a great opportunity to
express a loving reality. In fact there is some evidence our senses aren’t just
receiving information, but sending it out, and creating our world, so the
opportunity is not just to see, taste, hear, and feel, but to look with love,
taste with love, listen with love, and feel with love. For example, love can “color”
our vision so that look for the loving aspect of things we see. Then, it is as
if our eyes are projectors, sending out love to light our world in the living
colors of love.
A
good example here is body language, as how we feel is expressed in how we carry
ourselves, and others pick up on it right away, whether it is crossed (closed)
arms and legs with a stern look, or open arms and hands reaching out with a
smile on our face and a twinkle in our eyes. This is how we can build a bodily,
mentally, and spiritually experience of love through how we see, feel, listen, sniff,
and taste. Can you smell the love in your world? Why not?! (some say cognition
is a sense also – so get a mindset of love too!)
Neuroplasticity
- How important is it to make love,
kindness, and compassion a priority in life. Consider the scientific fact that “Nerons
that fire together, wire together” (Donald Hebb), so our “software” becomes our
“hardware! Lao Tzu also wisely said; "Watch your thoughts, for they become
words; watch your words, for they become actions; watch your actions, for they
become habits; watch your habits, for they become character; watch your
character, for it becomes your destiny". What we think and do matters.
In
your Hands - Speaking of the body… I like to
draw a small heart, peace symbol, happy (actually joyful) face, and a star for
beauty on my palm occasionally. I used to do it every day. This is to remind me
that love, peace, joy, beauty, and many other (Higher Powered) “super powers” are
always in the palm of our hands, but it’s up to us to remember. Love is a part (member)
of us like an arm or leg, so “re-membering” love every day is all important.
Wellbeing
and/or Sickness – Problems,
fears, and stresses trigger fight, flight, freeze reactions in the body that
flood us with adrenaline and cortisol to send our heart and blood racing, while
slowing down non-essential processes like digestion. The problem is our busy,
crowded, and anxious modern lives can put us into chronic stress that put us on
track for depression, hypertension, and many other diseases. As fears overwhelm
us it attacks our hearts so we are more prone to, guess what? Heart attacks!
Yet
we can find our way back to our innate, original, and infinite kindness,
compassion, and of course love, it releases the “love drugs” or “happy hormones”
of dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin. This steers us away from sicknesses
and diseases (and dis-ease!), and back to wellbeing. Hold someone’s hand, look deeply
into their eyes, really listen, or give them a big hug and you will see what I
mean. There are lots of ways to find and enjoy this reality. How? Read on!
Attitude
of Gratitude – Another great
way to get those loving and happy hormones is simply gratitude. There are all
sorts of gratitude practices to use; a few minutes first thing in the morning for
good start of the day and before bed for sweet dreams. Some folks make a list of
new things to be grateful for each day and send it to a friend. Personally, I
have a giant list with categories I wrote out that come to mind in my morning
practice and through-out the day. I believe it has brought my love and
happiness to a much higher level. Better to spend your time counting your
blessings than counting your curses. Give
it a try!
Inner
Child - “The most sophisticated people I’ve
ever known had one thing in common. The were all in touch with their inner
child” Jim Henson. Many people don’t believe they have an inner child, or they
don’t think it’s important, yet the inner child is the home of creativity,
passion, joy, fun, and lots of other fine qualities. The inner child is the
part of us that loves to play, sing, and dance.
Realizing
this, you might say, “bring it on!” (I did!). The inner child is also the home of
the deep, heart-felt experience of love. They naturally care about others, and
want to help when they see someone suffering. Childhood also goes back to a
preverbal, even precognitive time when we were one with our mother and our
maker. (Much more in the Inner Child Sanity File)
Hope,
Help, Healing, and Happiness -
Cowboy Dharma is firmly grounded in the (12 Step) Children of Dysfunctional
Families tradition which seems to include most everybody. Look at Dysfunctional
Families in Wikipedia and you may be stunned to see all of the manifestations,
perhaps many you grew up with. It lists six basic dysfunctional roles, six
dysfunctional family dynamics, sixteen common dysfunctional traits, thirty-two
dysfunctional styles, and thirty-five dysfunctional aspects. It’s worth
reviewing to see where you may have been stunted and have room to learn, grow,
and practice self-love in order to thrive. (see Sanity File)
Life
Happened - Childhood, home and
family life, school, adolescence, teen age years, young adulthood, work,
dating, marriage, children, mortgages and so on, living the dream or the
nightmare and train wreck, or something in between (usually both). Perhaps we
hit bottom sometimes (or many). Some, perhaps most of us struggled to survive
when we should have been thriving. And so it goes for years, decades, or a
lifetime unless and until we wake up from the dynamic and cycle, get help, and
recover the kindness, forgiveness, and love we all needed, and still do.
These
factors were a harsh daily reality for those who grew up in dysfunctional
families and environments, as we often lost touch with our heart, intuition,
ground of being, and very soul. The mind, brain, and thinking became all
powerful and important. Rationality and reasoning became God as we became
addicted to thinking like an alcoholic is to drinking, so for us "think is
our drink". Yet the love and passion in our hearts, fire in our belly, and
lightening in our veins never went out completely.
Higher
Power - “You may call God love, goodness,
and compassion” Meister Eckhart. If you are thinking oh no, they are going to
talk about God, hold on a minute. Yes, but not an angry old man in the sky,
rather the infinite power, presence, wisdom, and LOVE of the universe, however you
understand it. This is the power of gravity, electricity, and all other
fundamental forces of nature, and most of all LOVE. On our own we are nearly
powerless, but we all have access to this infinite and eternal power of life
and love if we can let go, and let God.
Loving
submission to higher truth, good, law, and love allows us to get out of a self-referencing,
self-absorbed, and self-centered ego. This takes the weight of the world off
our shoulders and gives it to the infinite and eternal goodness of creation however
you perceive it. Hopefully it is an up close and personal power you can feel
loving you in all physical, mental, and spiritual ways. We were born from the “The
Eternal One” but got lost in a separate and singular “me” for a while. It is
time to return to the higher, greater, and wiser “we” of all life and love.
Divine
Love – Another benefit of an up close and
personal relationship with a Higher Power of your own understanding is coming
to feel and believe that all the world and creation is holy ground, and we are
all welcome to a full share of divine grace and holiness in our lives and
world. We can realize that each of us is outrageously blessed with natures
bounty such as in the seasons changing, life giving rains, and perhaps most
precious of all, the gift of life for ourselves, across the world and time, and
likely the universe. (Much more in Higher Power Sanity File)
Ego
as Amigo? – It is important to realize that a
selfish ego has much valuable information for us. It is an integral part of us
like any other, so not something to be destroyed or discarded. It is when it
takes over and becomes unloving by ignoring the needs and value of others it
becomes a problem. In fact, “To know yourself, is to lose yourself” Dogen. Similarly,
Jim Carey said that after playing so many parts over the years he realized “Jim
Carey” was just another part he was playing (from a script from his parents,
society, and culture). So, find your personal passions and follow your love and
bliss, but don’t let ego get in the way.
Higher
Parent - There is another aspect of Higher
Power few people know or understand. Our parent’s style of loving, as well as
temperament, attitude, world view, and many others is overlaid onto our
experience of a Higher Power (and life). They were our authority figures, and
since God is the ultimate “author” and authority of all creation, we naturally
see and experience God in the same way, be that kind, caring, and loving, or
distant, angry, and cruel. This is an “aha” (or oh shit!) realization for many,
and good reason to nurture a kind, caring, and loving inner parent and
Higher Power.
Adult
States - Now consider our adult
manifestations of love as parents, teachers, caregivers, mentors and so on. Some
are even willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for others as police, firemen,
soldiers, and others. Sure, it’s easy to think of selfish businessmen,
politicians, and others, but there are also plenty of good and loving examples
of these as well. The point is, as children, teens, and adults, to listen with
love, look with love, speak with love, and act with love.
The
”I” of the Storm - The heart is
the deep part of us much like the ocean, particularly when storm clouds gather
and the “worldly winds” of loss and gain, praise and blame, fame and shame,
pleasure and pain rage through our lives. The wind and waves are the
drama and dysfunction of life that rise and fall and come and go. Also
like the winds and debris spinning around in a hurricane, destroying everything
in their path, and yet the eye of the storm is calm and quiet.
It
is all too easy to live and be lost in external worldly concerns 24/7, but
there is an alternative. We can choose otherwise, and live and act from the
inside out, from our heart center, and source, always accessible through prayer
and meditation, healing communities, sages, wise counselors, and loving friends
and family.
If
it hasn’t become clear yet, it is vital to realize that infinite love,
compassion, and kindness are not something we must chase after, capture, and cling
to, as they are part of our essential nature and True Self, and waiting within
our heart and mind to re-member, re-cognize, and real-ize wherever we are and
whatever we are doing. They are real, and a key part of the real you! Always
were, and always will be. "You are perfect just as you are, and you could
use a little improvement" Shunryu Suzuki. It may be hard to believe,
but it is crucial we do. The only work we have to do is to remove the barriers keeping
us from love over, and over, and over for the rest of our loving days!
The
Mind of Love - There is also
a biological basis for this depth and heart, as there are three parts of the
brain with different purposes. The first is the brain stem with its focus on
survival through breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure often referred to as
the reptilian brain, as reptiles tend to be solitary, competitive, and abandon
their young. The top, and newest part of the brain is the neocortex; responsible
for learning, language, and problem solving. This is the crowning glory for
humans that sets us apart from other creatures due to our amazing aptitude for
creativity, thinking, and imagination.
The
third part is between the two, deep within at the heart of the brain on top of
the spinal cord. This is the limbic system, the emotional paleo (older/ancient)
mammalian brain. This is perhaps the best part of our minds, where family and
community arose, and we learned to care for our children, parents, others,
animals, and all nature with kindness, compassion, and love from the cradle to
the grave, if we were lucky.
Mind
as Master – The eye sees, the ear hears, the
nose smells, and the mind thinks. It is natural, but all too often an obsessive-compulsive
narrative that won’t let up, a “monkey mind” jumping all over and capturing our
attention. With negativity, favoritism, groupthink, and dozens of other biases coloring
our thoughts it is clear our minds need taming, training, and transforming. Prayer
and meditation are a couple of effective ways to get back to our heart’s wisdom,
truth, and love.
Prayer
and Meditation - Spending quiet
time in prayer and meditation are excellent ways to get in touch with
the infinite love of nature, the universe, God, ourselves, and others. Prayer is
communication with living quality of love present in plants, animals, people,
our Higher Power, and all creation. Meditation is more a preverbal communion
with them. Here we can become one with them in a sacred, eternal, and real
presence. Prayer and meditation have a very long history and story, please see
the Sanity File for more.
The
Human Condition - Our separation
and isolation also have a biological basis, as the mind receives information
from two eyes, two ears, and two nostrils to judge space, distance, and
threats stereoscopically. The mind works to separate things and create inner
and outer, here or there, and us or them thinking. Conversely as the head
separates, the heart unifies, and makes all others, life, and creation one.
It’s time to let the heart take the lead.
Love of Nature – Nature teaches us the nature of love
whether it is in person, in our minds, and wherever nature is found (parks,
gardens, houseplants, pets, etc.). “I go to nature every day for inspiration.
It is my manifestation of God” Frank Lloyd Wright. "God writes the gospel
on trees, flowers, clouds and stars" Martin Luther. "Nature is the
art of God" Thomas Browne “The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. Nature is the source of
all true knowledge” Leonardo de Vinci. “I know no staircase to heaven unless it
be through earth’s loveliness” Michaelangelo. (more
in Nature Sanity File)
Journaling can be very helpful. It can also help take
the weight of the world off our shoulders by leaving it on the page, and get us
back to a loving head space when the going gets tough. We can write out all our
joy and sorrows, successes and failures, and deepest, darkest, as well as most
happy secrets. You may also use non-dominant hand writing to access,
understand, and love your inner child (or children of various ages). Don’t be
afraid to have fun and get wild with drawings, doodles, and big bold words and punctuation where
inspiration hits you. Just a simple spiral bound notebook from most any store
serves very well.
Here
you can also speak with your Higher Power as your very best friend forever,
someone who knows everything you ever did as well as your every thought, idea,
opinion, and belief however divine or evil, yet loves you enough to keep the
sun shining, rain falling, and seasons changing as if for your own personal
benefit. Add to this keeping your body working to balance, digest food, pass
waste, and hundreds of other functions non-stop for a lifetime and you may find
your Higher Power is an AWESOME friend!
Grieving
and Compassion can be a
breakthrough to love for ourselves and others if we can really feel the pain
and suffering, grieve the losses, comfort the sick and wounded physically,
spiritually, mentally, economically, environmentally, and other ways from
losses, oppression, exploitation, illness, old age, and other maladies. Too
often we hide from our pain and suffering and that of others. This was common
in many, if not most homes growing up, as well as in cultures and societies,
especially in the USA.
Loving
Community - Reaching out and asking for help
(from safe people) is also difficult for us, as these forces also teach us we
are on our own, shouldn’t show weakness or vulnerability, and yet somehow, we
are supposed to “have it all together”. Isolating isn’t the answer, it’s the
problem, as a problem shared is a problem halved, and a joy shared is a joy
doubled. To cry together and for each other takes real compassion. It breaks through
the walls we build to protect ourselves, through the distances we put between
us, and through the false biases and prejudices we've come to believe.
Love
Lost - Why has life become so hard and un-loving
in so many ways? Let us offer a historical perspective. Perhaps much of our
modern angst is a result of the Age of Reason sweeping Europe as
rebellion against rule by the Church and Monarchs. Science, industry, and
skepticism became favored over kindness and caring so that reasoning became the
primary source of authority and legitimacy. This over reliance on thinking
and reason led us to believe that "I think therefore I am".
Eventually,
many saw that nature and humanity were being trampled and lost, so this gave
way to Romanticism in Europe as art and beauty came to balance out excess
reason and rationalism. It seems America is long overdue for a similar
reawakening as our true and loving self took a backseat to the intellect and
let it became the guiding force. This extended out to our world as we became
overly reliant on and reactive to external events, and created a nation of
rugged individualists ready and willing to pull themselves up by their own
bootstraps, but left many bewildered, alone, and unloved.
Losing
Heart - Many of us have been living an
"out-of-body" (especially heart) experience for decades as our soul
and spirit seemingly moved into our heads and our "being" was
overcome by seeking, doing, and possessing. Our hearts passion became ego
ambition endlessly seeking people, things, and pleasures to
"complete" us and fill the emptiness we felt as we ran from our pain
and discomfort. Perhaps we should work on losing our heads, and going out of
our minds!
Homecoming - The emphasis on head over heart was a
necessary evolutionary cycle for us to survive and thrive but it has served its
purpose and gone too far. Like the prodigal child we must turn for home. We now
need to spend at least as much time in our hearts as we do on our heads.
Finding this center, source, and essential home again brings a peace, joy,
beauty, and uniting love that is primordial and preverbal. It seems the heart
and mind are like an hour glass, and it was the wrong way up for a time as we
lost our hearts to compulsive thinking and reasoning. The time has come to fill
the heart and follow it’s lead.
Mother
Nature - Another great way to take this
journey is with nature. When we look to nature, we see it is infinite as
well. First there are all the stars, planets, and other "heavenly
bodies" engaged in an intricate seemingly infinite dance across the
universe in perfect mechanical order like a Swiss watch. Life is similarly
and infinitely tenacious, abundant, diverse, and beautiful as it clings to
every possible crack and crevice across the earth, oceans, and skies it can, and
likely across the cosmos as well.
Look
to the myriad of processes going on non-stop like clockwork in our bodies for a
lifetime like digestion, balance, circulation, and immunity and you can see we
are blessed. Add our amazing senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste,
and you find we are outrageously blessed!
True
Power, Life, and Love manifest through
our internal essential self and being, our True Self. This love is our
anchor and safe harbor, and sound foundation to build our lives on. Hopefully
this understanding will help you feel the heart and wisdom of a deeply loving Higher
Power in your body, heart, mind, spirit, and soul to carry out to the
world through your eyes, words, heart, and hands.
Give
Up and Give In - Rest in your
center and source, so you can start to live, really live again, with
love for yourself and others, from the inside out. It’s that simple. It’s
not going to be fast, easy, or painless, in fact it’s damn hard work, but you
are worth it. “You, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve love and
affection” The Buddha. Also, your family, friends, all humanity, and life need
you to be the true and wonderful self waiting within you.
Brighter
Days - Unfortunately, the shit is already
hit the fan in many places around the world, as many worst-case
scenarios are happening daily due to climate change, wars, famines, sickness,
and other problems, and it seems things will get much worse. Yet there is hope,
healing, and happiness if we seek out truly helpful people and situations to
guide and support us. We need love more than ever. Love for ourselves, each
other, animals and plants, and our dear mother earth. Each of us can find the
peace, joy, beauty, and most importantly love in our hearts and minds to carry
with us and to our personal world.
The
Music in Me - The love of
music, and the music of love is deep in the heart of humans and many other
animals, even plants love music! Chimps and cockatoos like to drum (the
cockatoos hold sticks in their beaks), Shanthi the elephant could play the
harmonica, Nora the cat played the piano, and Koko the gorilla played the
harmonica, recorder, and whistles! Birds of course love to sing (and dance),
and lemurs even sing with rhythm!
Personally,
music and songs play in my mind, heart, and soul much of the time whether I’m
playing music or not. I made a list of my favorite songs that now stands at
seven pages broken down to categories of love/compassion,
joy/passion/inspiration, Higher Power/God/The Force, the Blues (sorrow/sadness),
and Rock and Roll. I have the same files
saved on my music players so I can always find the music that fits the mood.
Unfortunately, my family didn’t play instruments so I didn’t learn to either,
but I love to sing and often do, regularly at events as well.
It actually defies explanation how much and how deep my love of music goes, so I will let the music tell the story with some of my favorite songs: I Believe Love is the Answer Power of Love Give Me Love Love is the Answer I Want to Know What Love Is Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher It's All About Love I Believe in Love Love is Here Can't Keep It In Perfectly Loved Love Take Me Over Crazy Love I Believe (in Love) Give Me Love Perhaps you might start jotting down your favorites and make a list of your own to enjoy.
Where there is love, there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
You yourself, as much as anyone in the universe deserves your love and affection. Buddha
True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you. Julia Roberts
Love is like an hour glass, the heart fills as the mind empties. Jules Renard
Trust your heart, but use your head Julie Garwood
The seat of the soul is the heart. The mind is an organ of minor importance. Aristotle
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. George Michael
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
Don't let your brain interfere with your heart. Albert Einstein
I wish you to understand that a good loving heart is rich is enough, and without it, intellect is poverty. Mark Twain
Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. Rumi
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Khalil Gibran
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Mother Teresa
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. Werner Erhard
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ~Charles Dickens
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality, all else is folly. Leo Tolstoy
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran.
Love is like a beautiful flower whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight. Helen Keller.
We are most alive when we are in love. John Updike.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss.
Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. Sophocles.