Strength of Love

Love is like anything else, it needs to be exercised. It is a muscle, the more that you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. If not you start to resent.

Everyone can Love

Not everyone can write a lovely poem,

sing in tune,

create an angel out from a marble,

sculpt a statue,

paint a work of art ,

or plays the violin or the piano,

but everyone can love.

Not everyone can see the beauty of nature

hear the melodies of pastorale

read the works of the genius

but everyone can love

Not everyone can appreciate

the glorious days of Rome or Greece,

or visit the pyramids of Mexico or Egypt,

or go to Machu Pichu,

or trek the Himalayas,

but everyone can love

Not everyone can cruise the Mediterranean,

or enjoy the breeze of Caribbean,

or travel a neighboring island,

or bask in the sun,

but everyone can love

Not all of us can be a King, Queen, Prince or a Princess,

or hold an office of a Prime Minister or President,

or even take a foot to a palace of a Sheikh,

but everyone of us can love,

as long as we can recognize the greatness of

the humble and the ordinary existence

and share to others our joy, our pleasure and happiness

~Champs Ulysses Cabinatan

Renewable resourse

What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't. - Ed Fallon

Gay Acceptance

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? - Ernest Gaines

Burnt Biscuits

When I was a kid, my mom would prepare special breakfast every now and then. And I remember one night in particular, after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his biscuit, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that biscuit and eat every bite!




When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I'll never forget what he said: Honey, I love burned biscuits.



Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned.



He wrapped me in his arms and said, Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she's real tired. And besides - a little burnt biscuit never hurt anyone! You know, life is full of imperfect things.....and imperfect people. I'm not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else.



What I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each other’s faults - and choosing to celebrate each other’s differences - is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship.



And that's my prayer for you today. That you will learn to take the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of your life and lay them at the feet of Love. Because in the end, Love is the only way you will be able to have a relationship where a burnt biscuit isn't a deal-breaker!



We could extend this to any relationship. In fact, understanding is the base of any relationship, be it a husband-wife or parent-child or friendship!



Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket - keep it in your own.



God Bless You..... now, and always....

Spirituality Needs Love by Arhata

Love needs another. Love is an open giving and receiving process that gets deeper only by letting go and going deeper. Love is a relationship, and a relationship in it’s highest form of two people losing themselves into each other into an everlasting love that is within each for themselves and the other. Less is unfulfilled love that leaves the being short of the blossoming of divine love, or love beyond that which comes, and goes with ‘conditions’.


Love in any degree or form may be part of keeping a marriage together for a ‘marriage marathon’ achievement of decades of survival. Love does not need closed contracts of agreements to live together ‘til death do we part’. On the other hand, love can flourish under many circumstances that have infinite descriptions. Staying together through thick and thin may likely have nothing to do with anything but a low level love of ‘ego commitment’.

Breaking through love’s socially accepted barriers enters a space of evolving into what could be referred to as a ‘spiritual realm of consciousness’. Love in it’s deepest mutual sense is the catalyst to deeper levels of insight, consciousness, spirituality or whatever identification that comes closest to describing it. Love is far more than a word that gets passed around as if to touch everything with it. Love to the ultimate degree passes through, and is reflected by the mirroring of another simultaneously and unbreakably.

Love is the movement of energy light into your being while awareness is the giving out of love in the reverse. Awareness is also being within yourself in absolute aloneness, and in a sense, a feeling in high consciousness without a relationship but one within. Both love and awareness open the being to a state of higher consciousness. Deep inner awareness facilitates the ability to love another with no limitations as well as love being an opening of awareness. One merges with the other moving one beyond the state of the ‘coma’ of normal humanity.

Love does not possess without diminishing it into a ‘conditional’, low energy love. Love needs freedom or space for each person. Freedom is more valuable than love, but needs to have love filled in the heart to be really free. Love is never a bondage but a necessity on the path of ‘self realization’. Love is not a goal but a journey. The love journey is the goal with the insights it brings to the changes and maturity within. Freedom enriches love and awareness that together bring more of each other. Arhata





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With great affection

Dora Saunier