Touch, Squeeze and Kiss

"I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss."

~ Cher

Accept New Challenges

"Think for yourself, not the way you've been told to think. Accept new challenges." ~ Deepak Chopra

The room

When love beckons to you

"When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses
your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots
and shake them in their clinging to the earth."

~ Khalil Gibran

My Art

‎"People discuss my art and pretend to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love." ~ Claude Monet

Be Yourself

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." ~ Oscar Wilde

Reflection

There's no doubt we will be happy

‎"As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in the Buddha or God, follow some religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy." ~ Dalai Lama

Gardens

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

~ Rudyard Kipling

Place a beehive on my grave

"Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, that's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, but I'll stick with my plot & a pot of honey." ~ Sue Monk Kidd

To work with love

"What is it to work with love? It is to sow the seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit." ~ Kahlil Gibran

Just want to be wonderful

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful." ~ Marilyn Monroe

Keep Love In Your Heart

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ~ Oscar Wild

Life is...

Life without love
is like a tree without
blossoms or fruit.

~Kahlil Gibran

Alone in Texas

Nirvana

Nirvana may be the final object of attainment, but at the moment it is difficult to reach. Thus the practical and realistic aim is compassion, a warm heart, serving other people, helping others, respecting others, being less selfish.
By practising these, you can gain
benefit and happiness that remain longer.
If you investigate the purpose of life and, with the motivation that results from this inquiry, develop a good heart - compassion and love. Using your whole life this way, each day will become useful and meaningful.

Every human being has the same potential for compassion; the only question is whether we really take any care of that potential, and develop and implement it in our daily life. My hope is that more and more people will realise the value of compassion, and so follow the path of altruism. As for myself, ever since I became a Buddhist monk, that has been my real destiny - for usually I think of myself as just one simple Buddhist monk,
no more and no less.


~Dalai Lama

From BUDDHA BLESS on Facebook.