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Love is the secret sauce. “Beloved One, you know my heart through and through. Your gaze penetrates to the core of who I am, where the truest and deepest of my desire dwells. When I knock on your door with my requests, grant what will most influence my love for you. May I ever seek that which you long for me to be. I open the door of my heart to you. I open the door.” -Joyce Rupp, Open the Door: A Journey to the True Self #openthedoor #vondadreesart

Turn my heart toward your love again and again and again. -Joyce Rupp, Open the Door #vondadreesart

Pondering the poppy, PTSD, and the love that remains, remembers, and relates as it holds all things together. “The feeling remains, God is on the journey too.” -Teresa of Avila “...love can be seen as the final element of life-in-form and the gateway to the formless.” -Kathleen Singh Gateway, not hateway “And come November, when they name the dead, He waits in silence for his heart to break And every poppy burns with hopeless fire.” -Malcolm Guite, “Fire” https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2018/11/11/fire-a-sestina-for-survivors-3/ There is a deeper fire... and it has nothing to do with pain. #vondadreesart

“Oh, that we would become a ‘friendly host’ to the unending treasure in us. This inner world contains landscapes of clarity and rivers of knowledge, shadowed caves with unwanted and unclaimed characteristics waiting to teach us, and an air of enticement that forever lures us toward union with our divine Muse.” -Joyce Rupp, Open the Door, A Journey to the True Self (Image 3 of 3) #vondadreesart

“Oh, that we would become a ‘friendly host’ to the unending treasure in us. This inner world contains landscapes of clarity and rivers of knowledge, shadowed caves with unwanted and unclaimed characteristics waiting to teach us, and an air of enticement that forever lures us toward union with our divine Muse.” -Joyce Rupp, Open the Door, A Journey to the True Self (Image 2 of 3) #vondadreesart

“Oh, that we would become a ‘friendly host’ to the unending treasure in us. This inner world contains landscapes of clarity and rivers of knowledge, shadowed caves with unwanted and unclaimed characteristics waiting to teach us, and an air of enticement that forever lures us toward union with our divine Muse.” -Joyce Rupp, Open the Door, A Journey to the True Self (Image 1 of 3) #vondadreesart

“Look at the wildflower; it changes all the time always blossoming or closing up, sprouting or withering...” -Mary Katherine Lidle While Love is patient, Change doesn’t let me sit still too long. #vondadreesart

“I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing...Silence...Waves... --Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?” -Juan Ramón Jiménez #vondadreesart

It’s funny how I don’t need much cheering to go more deeply into my secret garden. What I have learned to be grateful for are my friends and family whose love calls me out. #vondadreesart

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