writing let love loves

So I can't save the world-

can't save even myself,

can't wrap my arms around

every frightened child, can't

foster peace among nations,

can't bring love to all who

feel unloveable.

So I practice opening my heart

right here in this room and being gentle

with my insufficiency.  I practice

walking down the street heart first.

And if it is insufficient to share love,

I will practice loving anyway.

I want to converse about truth,

about trust. I want to invite compassion

into every interaction.  

One willing heart can't stop a war.

One willing heart can't feed all the hungry.

And sometimes, daunted by a task too big,

I tell myself, what's the use of trying?

But today, the invitation is clear:

to be ridiculously courageous in love.  

To open the heart like a lilac in May,

knowing freeze is possible

and opening anyway.

To take love seriously.

To give love wildly.

To race up to the world

as if I were a puppy,

adoring and unjaded, 

stumbling on my own exuberance.

To feel the shock of indifference,

of anger, of cruelty, of fear,

and stay open.  To love as if it matters,

as if the world depends on it.

by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer

https://www.wordwoman.com/

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity,

we shall harness for God the energies of love, 

and then, for a second time in the history of the world,

man will have discovered fire.

-PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN (1881-1955)

  french philosopher and paleontologist

We have the power to hear each other into being.  [Nelle Morton] 

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.  [Rachel Naomi Remen]

There is nothing to fix or save in another; there is only the gift of listening.  

People need a safe place to hear themselves.

-Deborah Adele, The Yamas & Niyamas

We live in the tension between what is and what is possible.

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry

By going deeper into myth, I go deeper in to love, 

and when I go deeper into love, innately I find morality; 

I locate a True North in my own heart.

-Martin Shaw

The beauty and courage of just sitting with someone 

- this is the hard and unglamorous and most exquisite work of our life - 

to give care to each other.

-Courtney Hartman

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

-Mahatma Ghandi