This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born, and I have never died. Over there, the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies, all manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time, I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source. Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

1926-2022

All too often women* believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.

bell hooks

* I’d say people. We all deserve this expression of L O V E .

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

George Eliot

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anais Nin

Sense of beauty is a gift from God, for which those who have received it in good measure can never be thankful enough.

Gertrude Jeckyll