Feeling that we are loved is the very beginning of becoming who we are truly capable of being.
- Bridgett Miller

Many believe that parenting is about controlling children’s behavior and training them to act like adults. I believe that parenting is about controlling my own behavior and acting like an adult, myself. Children learn what they live.
– L R Knost

You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
- Rumi

I love my friends neither with heart nor with mind
Perchance ... Heart stops ... Mind forgets ...
I love my friends with my soul.
It never stops, nor forgets ...
- Rumi

"We all need that person, someone who sees our light. The one who reflects our light back at us so we can see it too."
- Janet Lansbury via positive-parents.org

So beautifully written. So very true. But is it restricted to the role of parent? I also think of you when I read this. And I hope and strive to be that person for my baby.

the gate of the year

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”

In the core of my Heart my love for you knows no limits.

~ Rumi

heart

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
- Oscar Wilde

Oh how that touched my heart today.

I saw it in the most unexpected place - it was written on one of those whiteboards normally used for indicating delays or some such information, coming out of Earl's Court tube station.

mind

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.
- David Orr

Contrary to what you may think, the one that resonated most was storyteller, not lover. There is a story that needs to be told, and you will tell it one day.