Endow your will…

I came across this quote sometime earlier during my random searches on the internet. It instantly grabbed my attention, so inspiring…

” Endow your will with such power

Let me not forget…

If it is not my portion to meet thee in this life
then let me ever feel that I have missed thy sight
—let me not forget for a moment,
let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams
and in my wakeful hours.

Be like the flowing river…

Be like the flowing river,
Silent in the night.

Ithaca

Is the journey more important than the end or is it the other way round? Here’s one of my all time favorite poem on this topic. Enjoy…

Ithaca

When you set out for Ithaka
ask that your way be long,
full of adventure, full of instruction.
The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,

Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,

they’re in each other all along.

– Rumi

Translation by Coleman Barks

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Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

—Robert Frost—