No Star Is Out Of Reach

   The capacity to love and form attachments and be part of the human family is one of the great rewards of life. Nevertheless, despair can also be part of our existence.
     At those times of despair, when fear and worry beset us,  love can heal us. This beautiful poem invites us to wait. Wait for the light of love.

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

                  ~by Wendell Berry

   When we enjoy the love of another human being, the stars are within reach  and so is their light. Both the power of love and the grace of this world provide us with an enduring peace. 
    So I watch Celine Dion reach with her arms up to the sky. I will reach for those stars too. How about you? 

Untrodden Spaces

   When you carry love in your heart, it extends to all people.  Love enriches our lives and gives us strength to endure the hardships and disappointments in life. Love is the most complete nourishment we possess because it feeds our body, mind and spirit. There are no boundaries (Christian and Jew) and no divisions (Chinese and Caucasian).
    Osho, the Indian philosopher, mystic and guru said:

The more you love, the more you will find untrodden spaces where love goes on and on spreading around you like an aura.


This video below reminds us that the spirit of love lives in our heart.  In that untrodden space, you can always feel the other person's heart. This deep form of love is rare, but immortal.

Never Stop Loving You

I don't stop to count the number of STOP signs I see on my drive home from work, but now maybe will.  I will imagine this red sign of admonition transformed into an amorous rendition:
                                                      "Never Stop Loving".
I don't think love ever stops. Certainly it doesn't stop with the final heart beat.
  Can you imagine a great romance during the stop and go traffic of your commute? Why not?
Love is an ageless passion.
   In this video below you can see the love remembered in Doris Day's eyes.

 

Passion

When  you follow your passion, it lights you up. Those who watch you see a glow. Those who know you, understand the reason why. Some people discover their passion later in life. It doesn't matter.  If you are lucky enough to be able to express that passion, Sing it. Say it. Live it.

  Find what it is that lights you up. Oprah asks the question:
What sparks the light in you,  so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world?

Wall of Love (Part 1)

In a world marked by violence and dominated by individualism, walls, like frontiers, are usually made to divide and to separate people and to protect them from one another. In downtown Paris, France, in a romantic garden,  there is a wall to write messages of love.
    LE MUR DES JE T'AIME (I love You : The Wall) is a link, a place of reconciliation, a mirror which reflects an image of love and peace.
With over 311 written declarations in 250 different languages, I love You : The Wall has become a meeting place for lovers.

The romantic garden of the Square Jehan Rictus Place des Abbesses in Paris Montmartre (I Love You Wall)

Flying

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi

   

   True love emerges from a state of emotional balance. One of the purposes for example of having a partner is to maintain a loving equilibrium. It is no accident that love makes you feel like you can fly.
There is a harmony and an incredible lightness of being.
    Listen to these words of balance about love from Wayne Dyer (below). He says, "Love is what's left over when falling in love fades away..."

Wayne Dyer -speaks of love - Being in Balance

The Cornfield

What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star ...

                    ~Virgil (from Georgic I)

Now is the time of the harvest and on the roads many cornfields have been plowed. The cornstalks are now  brown reminders of the bright yellow corn they once covered.
The cornfields may be smiling in this picture below. Maybe they are also dancing in the wind as the breezes bend them at noon. The wind makes its own music.

Cornfields in Fairfield, Iowa

The artist John Constable painted The Cornfield (below). This is one of his most vigorous and powerful masterpieces. 

"The elm trees in the hedgerow on the left are already slightly tinged with brown, while the shorter trees across the lane have still their summer dress of green. Between them, in the middle distance, part of a cornfield is seen, sloping down to the greener water-meadows of the valley, with glimpses of the river, and a church tower among the trees. Several small figures are moving along the pathway through the corn, which glows like gold under the sun's rays."
      ~letter from John Constable

    There is a warm, gold color when corn is in full bloom. Perhaps that warmth reminds the poet Virgil of the warm glow of love that make us smile. 

Uncle Kracker "Smile"