I Will Stay In This Madness

“When love isn’t madness, it is not love.”
-Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I was told by a good friend of mine that the love I share with my spouse is madness, an impossible state of love and being, and the fire will soon burn out.

If love is madness, then I am guilty on all counts.

If love is madness, then let me be one of the maddest women to walk the surface of the Earth. When I perish, I shall spread the fire in the afterlife.

If you allow your heart to guide you, then you will know that unconditional love is all there is.

And if the fire burns out, we can always start anew.

I am savage.

I am free.

There is no other way I’d rather be.

xo

Fact of Life

A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that–every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new. -Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

That I take responsibility of my experience.

“I am able to see that it is my thoughts, what I say, the things I do, the beliefs I empower and my attitudes that are creating my experience; it is not my circumstances. I don’t have to be a victim of any of these ways of being. I am considering that none are automatic; all are chosen or can be chosen. Certainly I have trained myself to respond to certain situations or events in particular ways, but that’s my point. I have trained myself, and I can retrain myself. That’s the good news. I am not stuck with anything unless I choose to be.” -Engelhart