relationships + sex reads

When you search for the Beloved,
It is the intensity of all the longing that does all the work.
Look at me and you will see a slave to that intensity!
- Kabir

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person: having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them out. Just as they are - chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot

(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;
only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
- ee cummings

Marriage is not a love affair,
it’s an ordeal.
It is a religious exercise, a sacrament,
the grace of participating in another life.

If you go into marriage with a program,
you will find that it won’t work.

Successful marriage
is leading innovative lives together,
being open, non-programmed.
It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along.

As a drop of oil on the sea,
you must float,
using intellect and compassion
to ride the waves.

- Joseph Campbell

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending, extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; and remade all the time.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Your hands have already opened their delicate fists
and let their soft drifting signs drop away; your eyes closed like two gray
wings, and I move

after, following the folding water you carry, that carries
me away. The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.
Without you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all.
- Pablo Neruda