The Lovers – © Sharon RussellSweet days of SummerThe jasmine’s in bloom.July is dressed up and playing her tune…Seals and Crofts – Summer Breeze What is bliss? What exactly, for that matter, is pleasure? James Olds was the chemist who first located the brain’s pleasure center, while he was experimenting with rats. He dubbed it … Read more
Let us roll all our strength, and allOur sweetness, up into one ball;And tear our pleasures with rough strifeThorough the iron gates of life.Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.from To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (1681) What perfect synchronicity! Now, in the height of the fertile, … Read more
Listen, whatever it is you tryto do with your life, nothing will ever dazzle youlike the dreams of your body, its spiritlonging to fly while the dead-weight bones toss their dark mane and hurryback into the fields of glittering fire where everything,even the great whale,throbs with song.The Humpbacks by Mary Oliver When we experience bliss, … Read more
When I was one I’d just begun,When I was two I was nearly new,When I was three I was hardly me,When I was four I was not much more,When I was five I was barely alive,But now I am six! As clever as clever!And I think I’ll stay six now for ever and ever! — … Read more
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,Float in the garden when no wind blows,Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows; So the old tunes float in my mind,And go from me leaving no trace behind,Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.— Sara Teasdale, Old Tunes Information from the world around … Read more
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world..— R. Hunter/J. Garcia Each of us has many senses, including the five or six we are most familiar with. Bliss is usually a blending of several senses in very pleasurable ways. And bliss is especially likely when our dominant sense is involved, … Read more
All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals— Charge of the Goddess, traditional by Doreen ValienteBliss is a very personal experience. Although we all share the same pleasure receptors, what triggers them, and to what degree, is a very individual thing. One of my most blissful moments was many years ago, while I was … Read more
I am sandaled with wind and with flameI have heart-fire and singing to give,I can tread on the grass or the stars,Now at last I can live!— Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933) Now, in this season of Summer’s exquisite passion, we are exploring bliss. We are invited to follow ours, yet to some it may … Read more
Keep knocking, and the joy insideWill eventually open a windowAnd look out to see who’s there.-– Rumi Today is the New Moon in Cancer, which astrologer Lisa Dale Miller calls, “Our chance to be held by the sweetness of love that pulsates through every living thing… On this New Moon of love, the idea is … Read more
Every word of every tongue isLove telling a story to her own ears.Every thought in every mind,She whispers a secret to her own Self.Every vision in every eye,She shows her beauty to her own sight.Every smile on every face,She reveals her own joy for herself to enjoy. –– Fakhruddin Iraqi (1213 – 1289 C.E.) When … Read more