Quiet surrender (for Jim)

You know that time with someone, when you can truly approach them, I mean who they are, the part that they've been holding to themselves for protection.  But sometimes there's an opportunity of quiet surrender when you can get close and be peacefully, lovingly, with deep acceptance with that person.  I love those moments of knowing, of being, simply two people loving and trusting each other unconditionally and without reservation....

LOVE DOES THAT

All day long a little burro labors, sometimes

with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries

about things that bother only

burros.

And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting

than physical labor.

Once in a while a kind monk comes

to her stable and brings

a pear, but more

than that,

he looks into the burro’s eyes and touches her ears

and for a few seconds the burro is free

and even seems to laugh,

because love does

that.

Love frees.

- Meister Eckhart