and tamed i will never be
“You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
my heart, like a sea anemone closes up when it is touched (even softly) it soon reopens ready to be touched again and so it goes
I am allowing the transitions in my life to be smooth by surrendering to flow.
Our revels are now ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial…
I wonder how many women have written or thought, “I am not a side dish, an appetizer, or dessert. I am an entree.” I am not a glass of wine to savor after a night out with your boys. I am not a piece of cake to eat while your wife is sleeping in your…
When the words stop And you can endure the silence That reveals your heart’s Pain Of emptiness Or that great wrenching-sweet longing, That is the time to try and listen To what the Beloved’s Eyes Most want To Say. ~Hafiz (as translated by Daniel Ladinsky in “The Gift”)