My Soul

La Mo " Praying "
 

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,

for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

And wait without love,

for love would be love of the wrong thing.

Yet there is faith.

But the faith and the hope and the love, are all in the waiting.

And the darkness shall be the light

and the stillness the dancing.

　

~ T.S. Elliot

Love

"The question of love is one that cannot be evaded.
Whether or not you claim to be interested in it,
from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love,
because love is not just something that happens to you:
it is a certain special way of being alive.
Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness,
a fullness, a wholeness of life."

- Thomas Merton