I wrote this poem many years ago and it is a personal favorite
Recently, during one of our week-long retreats, someone recited it in front of everyone by heart
It was one of the best compliments I have ever received https://t.co/KxLCOtEL9B
I wrote this poem many years ago and it is a personal favorite Recently, during one of our week-long retreats, someone recited it in front of everyone by heart It was one of the best compliments I have ever received https://t.co/KxLCOtEL9B
Love, we recognize that the fear of letting people down keeps us trapped and unable to heal and live a life that is our own.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
Let us agree
for now
that we will not say
the breaking
makes us stronger
or that it is better
to have this pain
than to have done
without this love.
Let us promise
we will not
tell ourselves
time will heal
the wound,
when every day
our waking
opens it anew.
Perhaps for now
it can be enough
to simply marvel
at the mystery
of ho
... See moreJan Richardson • Blessing for the Brokenhearted
tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. these, our bodies, possessed by light. tell me we’ll never get used to it. [richard siken]
Fear is when we let being scared stop us from doing what love requires of us.
Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
actually, you said love, for you,
is larger than the usual romantic love.
it’s like a religion. it’s terrifying. no one will ever want to sleep with you. [crush, richard siken]