life: acoustic & amplified

never, never, never quit – Winston Churchill

What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon. Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
– Paulo Coelho

This whole thing’s a valentine. – Steve Garnaas-Holmes

Love is not asking us to prove our worth, but to accept it.
– Mastin Kipp
The Daily Love

turn around, and be still,
and listen for the holy voice,
her rapture at your loveliness,
her infinite, tender desire
murmuring beneath your very breath,
“Beloved, be mine.”

Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
http://www.unfoldinglight.net

finding words

I wish I could speak like music.

I wish I could put the swaying splendor
Of the fields into words
So that you could hold Truth
Against your body
And dance.

I am trying the best I can
With this crude brush, the tongue,
To cover you with light.

I wish I could speak like divine music.
I want to give you the sublime rhythms
Of this earth and the sky’s limbs
As they joyously spin and surrender,

Surrender
Against Beloved’s luminous breath.
To hold me
Against your precious
Body
And dance,
Dance.

~ Hafiz
From “The Gift” by Hafiz