Access the Course: The Yoga of Heartfulness 4-Week Course • Ram Dass
Share (or find) some of your favorite quotes, poetry, or song lyrics that remind you of the beauty of your heart. Rumi, Hafiz, Mary Oliver, Mumford and Sons, the Grateful Dead, Thomas Merton, Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Dolly Parton, Richard Rohr…bring them all!
We can inspire each other as a community by sharing our love!
One of my favorites…“Shower the People you Love with Love, show them the way you feel…” by James Taylor
Love Fiercely Love Freely
Love over anger, love over fear
Love long and love near
Love without boundaries
Love hotter than foundries
Love from the ocean, up to the sky
Love every animal, for love never runs dry
Love holds no shape, knows no limits
For love makes up our very existence
Love is the formless, the eternal bliss
Union through love is all that exists.
Unknown poet
That she wrote, “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress Toward”
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers
The self-soilers, the harmony-hushers
Even if you are not ready for the day, it cannot always be night."
-Donda West
“All our actions are driven by love, or its lack…
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“The shortest distance between two souls is an open heart.”
-Kalen Dion
“It cannot be that anybody, anywhere is not my very own. I am with you at all times.”
I love, love, love all of these!!!
On the road of experience
I’m trying to find my own way
Sometimes I wish that I could fly away
When I think that I’m moving
Suddenly things stand still
I’m afraid 'cause I think they alway will
And I’m looking for space
And to find out who I am
And I’m looking to know and understand
It’s a sweet, sweet dream
Sometimes I’m almost there
Sometimes I fly like an eagle
And sometimes I’m deep in despair
All alone in the universe
Sometimes that’s how it seems
I get lost in the sadness and the screams
Then I look in the center
Suddenly everything’s clear
I find myself in the sunshine and my dreams
And I’m looking for space
And to find out who I am
And I’m looking to know and understand
It’s a sweet, sweet dream
Sometimes I’m almost there
Sometimes I fly like an eagle
And sometimes I’m deep in despair
On the road of experience
Join in the living day
If there’s an answer
It’s just that it’s just that way
When you’re looking for space
And to find out who you are
When you’re looking to try and reach the stars
It’s a sweet, sweet, sweet dream
Sometimes I’m almost there
Sometimes I fly like an eagle
And sometimes I’m deep in despair
Sometimes I fly like an eagle
Like an eagle
I go flying
High
**John Denver
I’ve got two about love saved in my notes, but not sure who they’re from…
Spend your life loving, not seeking love
Not all of us can do great things, but small things, with great love
“The heart never grows old.” — Maharaji
“The Lord himself is a guest in your heart. Why are you still so desperately seeking him? Offer your whole heart to him before night darkens it. How many eons you’ve waited for this momentous chance. Go near now to his heart. Offer yourself selflessly. He’ll give you an ocean of ecstasy and explain to you himself love’s mysteries and essence. Kabir says, How could I ever express how blessed I am to have won his unshakable love?”
There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and will doubt our ability to make out way through the uncertainty. Someone somewhere will say, “Don’t do it. You don’t have what it takes to survive the wilderness.” This is when you reach deep into your wild heart and remind yourself, “I am the wilderness.” ~ Brene Brown
One of my favorites…
When the road gets dark
And you can no longer see
Just let my love throw a spark
And have a little faith in me
When the tears you cry
Are all you can believe
Just give these loving arms a try, baby
And have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
When your secret heart
Cannot speak so easily
Come here darlin’
From a whisper start
To have a little faith in me
When your back’s against the wall
Just turn around and you will see
I’ll be there, I’ll be there to catch your fall
So have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
'Cause I’ve been loving you for such a long time, baby
Expecting nothing in return
Just for you to have a little faith in me
You see time, time is our friend
'Cause for us there is no end
All you gotta do is have a little faith in me (Have a little faith, ooh)
I will hold you up, I’m gonna hold you up
Because your love gives me strength enough
So have a little faith in me (Have a little faith)
All I want ya to do for me, baby
All ya gotta do is just to have a little bit of faith in me
(Have a little faith)
Oh, you gotta choose, just to have a little faith in me
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.- Kabir
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Ram Dass
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
“If I should live forever and all my dreams come true, my memories of love will be of you.
—Perhaps love is like a resting place
A shelter from the storm
It exists to give you comfort
It is there to keep you warm
And in those times of trouble
When you are most alone
The memory of love will bring you home
One of the greatest blocks to lovingkindness is our own sense of unworthiness. If we leave ourselves out of the circle of love and compassion, we have misunderstood. - Jack Kornfield
Before you are all the disguises you’ve created, you are a being with basic needs and a loving heart. Always be that first.
And the sun rose,
So many colors it nearly broke my heart,
It worked me over like a work of art,
and I was part of all that.
Dar Williams.
Yes thank you 
Wow. That’s something to think about!
