June 2024 Blog Posts (7)

Many years ago a wise friend gave me a name for human love. She called it "stirring-the-oatmeal" love. She was right: Within this phrase, if we will humble ourselves enough to look, is the very essence of what human love is, and it shows us the principal differences between human love and romance.

Stirring the oatmeal…

Beautiful message from Richard Gere:

"There's no time for anything else... It's life and no one escapes this living world. There's still time, so live for fun, maybe tomorrow is no more. Eat what you want, walk in the sun , bathe in the sea... Be crazy, be silly. There's no time for…

Tibetans and well-wishers from Switzerland and neighboring countries welcome HHDL during his brief stopover in Zurich, Switzerland on June 22, 2024, before he continues his journey to New York.

The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice.

The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed.

But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.

The Truth, furious, climbed out of…

Und der Mut ist so müde geworden

und die Sehnsucht so groß.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Bild: "Sehnsucht" von Heinrich Vogeler

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And courage has become so tired

and longing so great.

~…

throw away the idea

that healing is forgetting

the real result is no longer

reacting to old triggers

with the same intensity as before

the memories are still there

but they do not have

the same power over your…

Late in May as the light lengthens

toward summer the young goldfinches

flutter down through the day for the first time

to find themselves among fallen petals

cradling their day’s colors in the day’s shadows

of the garden beside the old house

after a cold spring with no rain

not a sound comes from…