posted April 19, 2013 11:25 AM            

The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world... One of the most essential ways of saying "I love you" is being a receptive listener.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

Deep within us -- no matter who we are -- there lives a feeling of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

There's something unique about being a member of a family that really needs you in order to function well. One of the deepest longings a person can have is to feel needed and essential.

Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

~ Fred (Mister) Rogers

posted April 19, 2013 01:51 PM            

What is the universe trying to tell me here?

posted April 19, 2013 02:38 PM            

Square my Ascendant by 1 degree,
Square my Ceres exactly.

posted April 20, 2013 02:06 AM            

And I do agree, to a point, sometimes life just requires a different approach.