desire

Desire and wanting seem to be our most intimate of
feeling.... So much so that what I call me or even what
I call God can easily be linked to it --- so for example
we talk about love of God, the passion of the Christ ---
stuff like that....

Well, it's about time I think - experience - and just like
we are not our hand - we are not the ball that is thrown -
we are not our desire or our wants -----

So much so -- it hurts --- and I get lost --- the trail
is dimly lit --- but the stars do shine.

me or other and me and other

So love. What in the world? It's all in the world or out of it. And love is. Why?
I think that is a long story. It has to do with heat and light - with air and breathing.
With all that we do and say. It's a long story because it surrounds us and contains
us and all that we do and all that we are.

But love is a tool as well. It can be applied by the human mind as any other
force - all forces which eminate from virtue. And so without virtue there is
parenthetically nothing. So our long hard learning process is to understand how
to apply them to the world in which we live.

And then maybe, we'll think it's easy - but to love effortlessly must be a sublime
gift, just as much as loving with great effort or even abandon. And what about
hopelessness? Do you learn from that? Well, just what about pain, and learning.

All the things we do. Standing up, laying down, sitting, and walking. Listening,
looking, hearing, smelling. Everything we do.

And when great love is directed from one human being to another - it should be
guided and cared for. Because that love reflects back into all that we say, and
all that we do, and all that we are.

Today because of soltice we seee.....