Simple Mind Zen

The name "Valentine", is derived from valens, meaning worthy, and was popular in late antiquity. Of the Saint Valentine whose...

"Sexual desire without Eros wants the thing in itself." -- The Four Loves,  C.S. Lewis Venus, the goddess of love in Greek myth...

"That our affections not kill us, or die." --Donne Affection unites even the most unlikely of partners. Affection, an intense...

"What if what we long hoped for does not come? The willingness to live for a better day." What am I living for? Living for the...

Sometimes we want to help others. When we give assistance to others it comes in different ways. It may be quiet, relying upon the attentive...

"He who does not expect, has all things" Charlotte Joko Beck writes, "Our human trouble arises from desire. Not all desire...

"If Christ, for one had practiced the love we advocate these days, he would have lived to a ripe old age." In his classic...

"We can still remain a free person. Free from what?" Going Home by Thich Nhat Hanh Writing in his book, Going Home , Buddhist M...

"I think, therefore I am."   -- Rene Descartes, French philosophe Not the least of accomplishments, the late Pope John Paul II ...

"The soul prospers in the failure of perfection."--Thomas Moore While we may perceive events either as immanent or as transcen...

"Most of us go into relationships to find security; we want to be with someone else who makes us feel safe… Spiritually the answer to ...

"At the end of your life, you will be judged by your love." --Saint John of the Cross With the approach of another Saint Valent...

"...One who is ascended has achieved [the] Christ's injunction to be in this world but not of it." --The Path to Love by Dee...

Love & Betrayal Peter the Shepherd: When they had eaten their meal, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love ...

"Love gives itself; it isn't bought." Henry W. Longfellow As we move through our lives, one hears and learns by experience...

Emotions, and the openness to the inter-twining of them   to discern a sense of deep spirit, a personal sense of the uniquely form  you , i...

"You are the secret of God's heart." There's a spirit awaiting your presence. Enter into it. Find what you may about l...

"Because you are alive, everything is possible." --Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh Buddhist author and teacher...

"I would know you in order to know myself." The word person has great significance. "Today our way of thinking about peo...

"The light of Dharmakaya is like unto the full moon..."   --Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism, by D.T. Suzuki. Considering the...