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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 09, 2006 02:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
"The madness of being in love clearly shows many characteristics of soul activity:
interference with plans and projects, long periods of time spent in daydream… projection
of ideal fantasies… confusion about personal goals and values, a weakening of
willpower — all of these reveal an activation of the deeper strata of the soul."

--Thomas Moore


Wow!
In that case,
I must have a very deeply active soul, lol!
'Cause I'm a wreck!


~hsc
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 09, 2006 02:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
"My friends, how desperately do we need to be loved and to love. When Christ said that man does not live by bread alone, he spoke of a hunger. This hunger was not the hunger of the body. It was not the hunger for bread. He spoke of a hunger that begins deep down in the very depths of our being. He spoke of a need as vital as breath. He spoke of our hunger for love.
Love is something you and i must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world. We turn inward and begin to feed upon our own personalities, and little by little we destroy ourselves.
With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly.
With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others."

- Chief Dan George

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gert
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posted March 10, 2006 09:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for gert     Edit/Delete Message
An old wise man once said to me "Always give it away!" and then I asked him "What if I've never had it?" and he answered "Create it.Mould it.Admire it and then set it free!" and then I asked "Why shouldn't I keep it?" and he answered "If its the real deal,you wont have a choice of keeping it.If its real,its bigger than you.If its bigger than you then its not only for you but allso for the whole world.Spread it,spread the love!"

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sue g
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posted March 10, 2006 06:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sue g     Edit/Delete Message
gert

WOW.......what a wise old man he is !!

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sdg1844
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posted March 10, 2006 09:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sdg1844     Edit/Delete Message
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
-Sai Baba

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hippichick
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posted March 11, 2006 11:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for hippichick     Edit/Delete Message
"love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars
and any heart not tough or strong enough
to take alot of pain, take ALOT of pain
love is like a cloud
it holds alot of rain
love hurts"

Nazareth, from Hair of the Dog

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Focused Chi
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posted March 12, 2006 12:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Focused Chi     Edit/Delete Message
"Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates Love".

~Lao Tzu

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shop22much
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posted March 12, 2006 05:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for shop22much     Edit/Delete Message
"love is bullsh/t"

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cappyme
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posted March 12, 2006 10:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cappyme     Edit/Delete Message
The three most decieving words in human history is 'I love you' and it has caused many people lots of problems and illusions. Its also caused people to detour from thier path.

Don't hit me, I'm just being realistic, Capricorn self .

On a lighter note, whenever the words aren't misused, love can be the most beautiful and happiest thing in the world .

Anyways quotes related to love which I personally like are these:

'How wise are they that are but fools in love!' - Joshua Cooke

'Its love, it's love that makes the world go round' - French Song

'So dear I love him, that with him all deaths
I could endure, without him live no life' = Milton, Paradise Lost.

'Love sought is good, but given unsought is better' - Shakespeare (don't remember the book)

'Give me my Romeo and, when he shall die.
Take him, and cut him out in little stars,
And he'll make the face of heaven so fine,
That all the world will be in love with night,
and pay no worship to the garnish sun.' - Romeo and Juliet (this quote isn't exactly based on love, but it just so wonderfully shows how graceful love is)

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Don't go to bed angry. Stay up and fight!

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hippichick
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posted March 12, 2006 11:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hippichick     Edit/Delete Message
Cappy

You are awesome!

Romantic love sucks

God's love rocks!!!!!!!!

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fayte.m
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posted March 12, 2006 02:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
LOVE IS

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MysticMelody
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posted March 14, 2006 12:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
-Agatha Christie

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MysticMelody
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posted March 15, 2006 02:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message
These are from a daily inspirational tip type thing from Beliefnet, called "From The Masters." The "Bits and Pieces" section was titled LOVE and these two quotes appeared:

The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved, instead of loving.

Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901)
Writer


When you are behaving as if you love someone, you will presently come to love him.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Writer

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sweetlibra
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posted March 15, 2006 04:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for sweetlibra     Edit/Delete Message
Love is a thought...

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Libra Sun/Mercury, Aqua Moon, Scoprio Venus/Mars, Taurus Asc

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ghanima81
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posted March 15, 2006 09:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ghanima81     Edit/Delete Message
I just got this from a friend...

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I think awhile of Love, and while I think,
Love is to me a world,
Sole meat and sweetest drink,
And close connecting link
Tween heaven and earth.

I only know it is, not how or why,
My greatest happiness;
However hard I try,
Not if I were to die,
Can I explain.

I fain would ask my friend how it can be,
But when the time arrives,
Then Love is more lovely
Than anything to me,
And so I'm dumb.

For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak,
But only thinks and does;
Though surely out 'twill leak
Without the help of Greek,
Or any tongue.

A man may love the truth and practise it,
Beauty he may admire,
And goodness not omit,
As much as may befit
To reverence.

But only when these three together meet,
As they always incline,
And make one soul the seat,
And favorite retreat,
Of loveliness;

When under kindred shape, like loves and hates
And a kindred nature,
Proclaim us to be mates,
Exposed to equal fates
Eternally;

And each may other help, and service do,
Drawing Love's bands more tight,
Service he ne'er shall rue
While one and one make two,
And two are one;

In such case only doth man fully prove
Fully as man can do,
What power there is in Love
His inmost soul to move
Resistlessly.

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Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side,
Withstand the winter's storm,
And spite of wind and tide,
Grow up the meadow's pride,
For both are strong

Above they barely touch, but undermined
Down to their deepest source,
Admiring you shall find
Their roots are intertwined
Insep'rably.

Henry David Thoreau

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Thanks, Steve... nice thread

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BlueTopaz124
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posted March 15, 2006 10:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueTopaz124     Edit/Delete Message
it's nice to see you Ghani!


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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 16, 2006 11:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
When You Are Old - William Butler Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

Love's Philosophy

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

The fountains mingle with the rivers
And the rivers with the oceans,
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle
Why not I with thine?

See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother,
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 16, 2006 11:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell


Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges side.
Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood:
And you should if you please refuse
Till the Conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable Love should grow
Vaster then Empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.
Two hundred to adore each Breast.
But thirty thousand to the rest.
An Age at least to every part,
And the last Age should show your Heart.
For Lady you deserve this State;
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I alwaies hear
Times winged Charriot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lye
Desarts of vast Eternity.
Thy Beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound
My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try
That long preserv'd Virginity:
And your quaint Honour turn to durst;
And into ashes all my Lust.
The Grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hew
Sits on thy skin like morning glew,
And while thy willing Soul transpires
At every pore with instant Fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our Time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r.
Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Through the Iron gates of Life.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 16, 2006 11:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
The River Merchants Wife: A Letter
by Li Po (trans. Ezra Pound)

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While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
Played I about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chokan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.

At fourteen I married My Lord you,
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.

At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?

At sixteen you departed,
You went into fat Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noises overhead.

You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early in autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Cho-fu-Sa.

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pixelpixie
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posted March 16, 2006 01:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pixelpixie     Edit/Delete Message
"Everytime she sneezes I believe it's love" ~Counting Crows

'Think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.' ~Kahlil Gibran

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pixelpixie
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posted March 16, 2006 01:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pixelpixie     Edit/Delete Message
HSC~ The River Merchants Wife----- ***swoon***

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Lialei
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posted March 17, 2006 02:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lialei     Edit/Delete Message
Thy hand, my darling,
shall I take gently to breast
resound this heart's perennial blessed?

Of how I shall Love thee
with honor so true

Take thy hand so gingerly
as reverent sacrosanct of you

trace the lines
of your palm so purposely,
cradle every past effort
your weary fingertips through

Behold every movement
it's generous touch felt
Every concentrated exertion
every tenuous muscled regret ...

and Your Eyes!
Eyes of a Child,
the deeper pools,
that dim beyond the Iris'
wavering hues...

the visions they have seen
Oh, to see them through yours
To feel each experience
that your gentle Soul soared

Every disappointment,
all your darkest graven nights
Every boundless exhuberance
Every blissful, swirling flight

How I would cherish thee
galaxies beyond
simple distracted musings

How I would
dream such a delicate dream
beyond
simple hope's diffusion


there is such awing wonder
in each living breath
that seeks your inhale

and greatest giving gratitude
your unawares
fuel in thy modest quell

far beyond the fairest songs of
dreamings,

my enchanted heart's
fairer melodies
of thy beautiful singings.



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ghanima81
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posted March 17, 2006 08:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ghanima81     Edit/Delete Message

Being her friend, I do not care, no I,
How gods or men may wrong me, beat me down,
Her words sufficient star to travel by,
I count her quiet praise sufficient crown.

Being her friend, I do not covet gold,
Save for a royal gift to give her pleasure;
To sit with her, and have her hand to hold,
Is wealth, I think, surpassing minted treasure.

Being her friend, I only covet art,
A white pure flame to search me as I trace
In crooked letters from a throbbing heart,
The Hymn to beauty written on her face.

-John Masefield

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...now that's a nice compliment...

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 17, 2006 03:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
Wow, these are beautiful!
Thank you, Lia and Ghani!
Here's one of my favorites: http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/chamber.html

(excerpts from "Chamber Music" by James Joyce)

V

Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair,
I hear you singing
A merry air.

My book was closed;
I read no more,
Watching the fire dance
On the floor.

I have left my book,
I have left my room
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom,

Singing and singing
A merry air.
Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair.


VI

I would in that sweet bosom be
(O sweet it is and fair it is!)
Where no rude wind might visit me.
Because of sad austerities
I would in that sweet bosom be.

I would be ever in that heart
(O soft I knock and soft entreat her!)
Where only peace might be my part.
Austerities were all the sweeter
So I were ever in that heart.

VII

My love is in a light attire
Among the apple-trees,
Where the gay winds do most desire
To run in companies.

There, where the gay winds stay to woo
The young leaves as they pass,
My love goes slowly, bending to
Her shadow on the grass;

And where the sky's a pale blue cup
Over the laughing land
My love goes lightly, holding up
Her dress with dainty hand.


VIII

Who goes amid the green wood
With springtide all adorning her--
Who goes amid the merry green wood
To make it merrier?

Who passes in the sunlight
By ways that know the light footfall--
Who passes in the sweet sunlight
With mien so virginal?

The ways of all the woodland
Gleam with a soft and golden fire--
For whom does all the sunny woodland
Carry so brave attire?

O, it is for my true love
The woods their rich apparel wear--
O, it is for my own true love
That is so young and fair.

X


Bright cap and streamers,
He sings in the hollow:
Come follow, come follow,
All you that love.
Leave dreams to the dreamers
That will not after,
That song and laughter
Do nothing move.

With ribbons streaming
He sings the bolder;
In troop at his shoulder
The wild bees hum.
And the time of dreaming
Dreams is over--
As lover to lover,
Sweetheart, I come.

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted March 17, 2006 03:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
XI

Bid adieu, adieu, adieu,
Bid adieu to girlish days.
Happy Love is come to woo
Thee and woo thy girlish ways--
The zone that doth become thee fair,
The snood upon thy yellow hair.

When thou hast heard his name upon
The bugles of the cherubim
Begin thou softly to unzone
Thy girlish bosom unto him
And softly to undo the snood
That is the sign of maidenhood.


XX

In the dark pinewood
I would we lay,
In deep cool shadow
At noon of day.

How sweet to lie there,
Sweet to kiss,
Where the great pine-forest
Enaisled is!

Thy kiss descending
Sweeter were
With a soft tumult
Of thy hair.

O unto the pinewood
At noon of day
Come with me now,
Sweet love, away.


XXI

He who hath glory lost nor hath
Found any soul to fellow his,
Among his foes in scorn and wrath
Holding to ancient nobleness,
That high unconsortable one--
His love is his companion.


XXII

Of that so sweet imprisonment
My soul, dearest, is fain--
Soft arms that woo me to relent
And woo me to detain.
Ah, could they ever hold me there
Gladly were I a prisoner!

Dearest, through interwoven arms
By love made tremulous,
That night allures me where alarms
Nowise may trouble us
But sleep to dreamier sleep be wed
Where soul with soul lies prisoned.

XXIII

This heart that flutters near my heart
My hope and all my riches is,
Unhappy when we draw apart
And happy between kiss and kiss;
My hope and all my riches-- yes!--
And all my happiness.

For there, as in some mossy nest
The wrens will divers treasures keep,
I laid those treasures I possessed
Ere that mine eyes had learned to weep.
Shall we not be as wise as they
Though love live but a day?

XXVIII

Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.
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XXXII

Rain has fallen all the day.
O come among the laden trees:
The leaves lie thick upon the way
Of memories.

Staying a little by the way
Of memories shall we depart.
Come, my beloved, where I may
Speak to your heart.

XXXIII

Now, O now, in this brown land
Where Love did so sweet music make
We two shall wander, hand in hand,
Forbearing for old friendship' sake,
Nor grieve because our love was gay
Which now is ended in this way.
...


XXXIV

Sleep now, O sleep now,
O you unquiet heart!
A voice crying "Sleep now"
Is heard in my heart.

The voice of the winter
Is heard at the door.
O sleep, for the winter
Is crying "Sleep no more."

My kiss will give peace now
And quiet to your heart--
Sleep on in peace now,
O you unquiet heart!

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