Tie Your Heart at Night to Mine
Pablo Neruda
Tie your heart at night to mine, love,
and both will defeat the darkness
like twin drums beating in the forest
against the heavy wall of wet leaves.
Night crossing: black coal of dream
that cuts the thread of earthly orbs
with the punctuality of a headlong train
that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly.
Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement,
to the grip on life that beats in your breast,
with the wings of a submerged swan,
So that our dream might reply
to the sky’s questioning stars
with one key, one door closed to shadow.
If Seeing Is Believing ~ Sri Chinmoy
If Seeing is Believing
Sri Chinmoy
If seeing is believing
Then at every moment
Keep you heart’s eye
Wide open
And see the divine reality
In everything.
Health Hack: #7 of Life’s Simple 7 for Optimal Cardiovascular Health
#7. Avoid smoking. Smoking (and regular exposure to second-hand smoke) increases risk of heart disease and stroke.
Source: American Heart Association
Today’s Quote ~ What’s Inside You?
“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Health Hack: #6 of Life’s Simple 7 for Optimal Cardiovascular Health
#6. Control your cholesterol. Unhealthy cholesterol levels contribute to plaque buildup in arteries (atherosclerosis), which makes
Source: American Heart Association
arteries narrower and stiff.
Health Hack: #5 of Life’s Simple 7 for Optimal Cardiovascular Health
#5. Manage blood pressure. Optimal
Source: American Heart Association
blood pressure is less than 120/80 mm Hg.
Blood pressure at or above 140/90 mm Hg is high.
Today’s Reflection: Your True Guide
Let your heart guide you…it whispers so listen closely. ~ Walt Disney
Writer’s Wisdom: Writing from the Heart
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.” ~ Washington Irving
The Smile ~ William Blake
The Smile
William Blake
There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit,
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet.
And there is a frown of hate,
And there is a frown of disdain,
And there is a frown of frowns
Which you strive to forget in vain;
For it sticks in the heart's deep core,
And it sticks in the deep back bone.
And no smile that ever was smil'd
But only one smile alone,
That betwixt the cradle & grave
It only once smil'd can be;
But when it once is smil'd,
There's an end to all misery.
Hope ~ Percy Shelley
You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,
You are soft as the nesting dove.
Come to my heart and bring it to rest
As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.
Come when my heart is full of grief
Or when my heart is merry;
Come with the falling of the leaf
Or with the redd’ning cherry.
Come when the year’s first blossom blows,
Come when the summer gleams and glows,
Come with the winter’s drifting snows,
And you are welcome, welcome.