by Jeffry Jeanetta-Wark, Guest Blogger

Love is such an abstract concept to write about, it obviously references more than we can language. Never the less, I am referencing love in three ways in this writing: love for ourselves, love for others and love for all (the world in general). I have selected poems and quotes that touch on the depth of love in the three forms referenced. May your loving be full, deep and satisfying, now and always.

Blessings,
Jeffry

“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t get to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias! And for the difference between them.” - Rumi

“Everybody should have four marriages like I had: the first for sex, the second for kids, the third for intimacy and the fourth for a relationship with God.” - Margaret Meade

Ch’an master’s observation: “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”

LOVE COMES QUIETLY
Love comes quietly,
Finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways.

What did I know
thinking myself
able to go alone all the way.
- Robert Creeley

“Only by loving your body will you come closer to God…the body knows how to dance, how to sing, how to pulsate with God. When the body starts vibrating with the divine, suddenly you will see your soul is also vibrating. Your body and soul are one.” - Osho

“What we give - we have.
What we’ve spent - we had
What we keep - we lose.” - Anonymous

“Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.” - Anonymous

“Do your values, follow your bliss, and live your passions.” - Jeffry Jeanetta-Wark

“My love for myself heals the whole world. I see what is true for me with my Inner vision, and I act from that place. I am guided by my higher self my soul-whatever is in my highest good is in the highest good for all.” - Buddhist teaching

“You can do no great things, you can only do small things with great amounts of love.” - Mother Theresa

“I and thou are one.” - Jeffry Jeanetta-Wark

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” - Geothe

Jeffry Jeanetta-Wark, MA, LICSW is a licensed independent clinical social worker in private practice with over 18 years of experience working with people of all ages. He works as a psychotherapist, educator and presenter incorporating an eclectic, holistic approach. Jeffry currently is headquartered at the Center for Integrated Well Being, Inc. in St. Paul, Minnesota, which he established in 2004. Reach him at www.jeffryjeanetta-wark.com