“ We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ”
When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.