Recollections

Ye blesséd Creatures, I have heard the call
     Ye to each other make; I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;
     My heart is at your festival,
       My head hath its coronal,
The fulness of your bliss, I feel—I feel it all.

William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850,
'Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'

Only Love Lasts

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless;
love is eternal.

H.W. Longfellow

The Mind And Awareness

There is no ideal in observation.
When you have an ideal,
you cease to observe,
you are then merely
approximating the
present to the idea,
and therefore there
is duality, conflict,
and all the rest of it.

The mind has to be in the
state when it can see, observe.
The experience of the observation
is really an astonishing state.

In that there is no duality.
The mind is simply—aware.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti