Month: February 2012

The Primary Components, by Franklin Merrell Wolff

The Primary Components:

  1. Cultivate interest in that which is most universal and least affected by the wearing of time.
  2. Cultivate a feeling and practice of brotherhood in the most universal sense possible.
  3. Subordinate personal self-interest to impersonal and general interests.
  4. Cultivate detachment.
  5. Lay the primary emphasis upon integrating principles rather than upon the differentia of things

– Franklin Merrell Wolff

“It is attachment that destroys all love”

“Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing.
They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
If you feed, if you nourish attachment, love will be destroyed;
if you feed and nourish love, attachment will fall away by itself.
They are not one; they are two separate entities, and antagonistic to each other.”    

– Osho

“The heart says only one thing…”

“Believing that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end. It makes the mind stiff, inflexible, caught in a picture of reality rather than open to the wisdom of the way of it…

The heart doesn’t move, it just waits. You don’t have to listen to it, but until you do you’re going to hurt. And the heart says only one thing: What Is, is.”

 – Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy

Love

“Love demands more than we can do on our own. Love makes us surrender. More than a feeling, love is the very basis of all that is and the most sacred bond that two human beings can share. Love is the safest and scariest place to be. It erodes our weaknesses and our strengths, turning them into each other.”

– James Wood

♥  Happy Valentine’s Day!  ♥