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Love Is The Roadmap
When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.
~ Roman Payne
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He (Thomas Merton) encountered a series of Buddhas, “barefoot and undisturbed.” “Looking at these figures, I was suddenly, almost forcibly jerked clean out of the habitual, half-tied vision of things, and an inner clearness, clarity, as if exploding from the rocks themselves, became evident and obvious…I know and have seen what I was obscurely looking for. I don’t know what else remains but I have now seen and have pierced through the surface and have gone beyond the shadow and the disguise.”
Thomas Merton’s Last Prayer from Roger Butt’s new book: “Seeds of Devotion” p. 220–221
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Often, when we say, “I love you” we focus mostly on the idea of the “I” who is doing the loving and less on the quality of the love that’s being offered. This is because we are caught by the idea of self. We think we have a self. But there is no such thing as an individual separate self… I am made only of non-me elements, such as the Earth, the sun, parents, and ancestors. In a relationship, if you can see the nature of interbeing between you and the other person, you can see that his suffering is…
