Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation.

Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the worlds greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding. Dont judge others because they sin differently than you. Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you theres a tomorrow. Maybe for you theres one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us theres only today. And the truth is, you never really know. Its beautiful when you find someone that is in love with your mind. Someone that wants to undress your conscience and make love to your thoughts. Someone that wants to watch you slowly take down all the walls youve built up around your mind and let them inside. I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

Damaged people are dangerous because they know they can survive.
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so dont. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. And there you sat. Completely silent, the usual spark in your eye dulled by some unknown force. I asked you what was wrong, to which you replied nothing. But Ive sat and watched nothing eat up words and break souls. Ive watched it tear the smiles from the faces of the people around me, leaving them broken and hollow. Too many people have been taken by nothing. And I wont let you be one of them. I cant. You have to learn to get up from the table when LOVE is no longer being served.

Im OK
Im not happy
But when I smile Its because of the hope Ive drowned myself in The promise that one day this will all be over This struggle This unjust war One day Ill look back And Ill be a better man Ill appreciate all that it took to get there Ill know myself better than anyone ever can Ill love myself better than anyone ever did But until then Ill just try

Try to make sense of it all Take it one day at a time Remind myself about myself Enjoying whatever there is to enjoy Im okay Im okay with being okay

Never chase love, affection or attention if it isnt given respectfully and freely by the person that you believe values you Maybe things would be different if you saw me drowning in my own tears and you knew that you were the reason I promise to plant kisses like seeds on your body, so in time you can grow to love yourself as I love you. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
Cree Native American Proverb
Put your iPod on shuffle and see what the soundtrack would be if your life was a movie. Opening Credits: Sara Bareilles - Gravity Waking Up: Dj Sbu ft Zahara - Lengoma Falling In Love: James Blunt - Youre beautiful Fight Song: Corinne Bailey Rae - I would like to call it beauty Breaking Up: Amy Winehouse - Love is a losing game Lifes OK: Train - Hey soul sister Getting Back Together: James Vincent Mcmorrow - And if my heart should somehow stop Wedding: James Blunt - Goodbye my lover Birth of Child: Black Eyed Peas - Showndown Final Battle: The Arrows - Lovesick Death Scene: Michael Buble - Home Funeral Song: Simon Webbe - Aint true to yourself End Credits: Kanye West - Homecoming

I walk like my feet might betray me to the ground. Like my bones break like glass. like the next moment may be my last. I walk fragile.
Mpumelelo Msomi Tattoo the wind on to my heart- in case yours rustles like leaves. This way I can always bring you back to me.
Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou
Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of man. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer. This has been my life; I have found it worth living.

Bertrand Russel

Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and Im yours forever.
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I do not trust people who dont love themselves and yet tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Maya Angelou.

The Dalai Lama on other themes related to personal strength...

SUCCESS - "Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it." COURAGE - "Great love and great achievements involve great risk." FAIRNESS - "I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope." FRIENDSHIP - "Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship." GRATITUDE - "The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." INTEGRITY - "Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time." LOVE - "A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life." OPTIMISM - "Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." SELF-DEVELOPMENT - "When you lose, don't lose the lesson." SERVICE - "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." TOLERANCE - "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

Your smile.is the only sunrise worth setting my alarm clock early enough to see,if I could I would shapeshift into the first thing you think about in the morning just so I could be reminded of what its like to wake up next to you. I love you in a language that I dont fully understand.in words that I havent found enough courage to forklift out of my chest. I hear that karma is vengeful and also a light sleeper,so Ive chosen to love you like this: quietly. So I call your phone and hang up before it actually rings.Ill right you letters that you will never read and when I see you in public Ill stick my hand inside a bag full of things that I havent done since you left me and pull out a smile. Ill say something like Hello,Its nice to see you and Ill keep walking. Rudy Francisco

My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors, and trying to convince my shadow that Im someone worth following.

Our Deepest Fear Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear in that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Marianne Williamson Have you named the monster inside of you ?

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room

and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.
John Green, Looking for Alaska

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in ones own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson