Awakening of an Open Heart September 12, 2007
[From another blog I write, comes a bit of bit of personal enlightenment I'd like to share]

To truly enjoy the sweetness of life,
Appreciate our true nature:
that we all desire and pursue happiness
while seeking to avoid suffering.
When our minds grasp that reality
in little glimpses or as part of a habit
that we cultivate through practice and awareness,
we’ll recognize the full capacity
of an Open Heart.
One that we can use to express compassion:
for ourselves because this is our life to live and enjoy,
and for others since giving can be fun and
seeing others happy gives great pleasure.
An Open Heart knows no boundaries
it just acts without exception to time, place, or object.
Its strength may be variable
but its intent is unchanging.
To truly love responsibly,
we must be willing to give and receive
without expectation nor envy; like Life,
Love has a fluid state of being.
It is never the same, one moment to the next.
When we recognize this impermanence,
we are able to give more to others and
realize fuller happiness in Life, in addition to
being able to freeing ourselves of any
sadness or discontent when it seems to fade,
or we don’t sense a receipt in kind.
Voltaire once wrote:
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature
and embroidered by imagination” .
Let it be free and enjoy its presence…
in the past,
this living moment,
and what time may come
































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