Sacred Temples

"Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life." ~~Marianne Williamson

As a Whole

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.” ― Plato

benefits to kissing

"A kiss seals two souls for a moment in time.” ~Levende Waters

 Top 10 Reasons To Kiss List:
Lowers blood pressure
Decreases cortisol stress hormone
Increases seratonin
Reduces pain
Increases oxytocin
Improves immunity
Fights off cavities
Increases dopamine
Improves mood Lowers anxiety

There are plenty more benefits to kissing...but I am guessing that you already have your favorite reasons. What’s my favorite kissing moment, you ask? When you can feel your partner smiling as you kiss each other. Kissing makes us smile more!

Seize It

"There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it."~ Max Lucado

We Shall Keep the Faith

We Shall Keep the Faith
 by Moina Michael,
November 1918

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.

Inspiration for the poem:  Flanders poppies--Having read John McCrae’s poem 'In Flanders Fields' Moina Michael made a personal pledge to ‘keep the faith’. She felt compelled to make a note of this pledge and hastily scribbled down a response entitled “We Shall Keep the Faith” on the back of a used envelope. From that day she vowed to wear a red poppy of Flanders Fields as a sign of remembrance. Read the fascinating story of Moina Michael and how she had the idea to use the delicate poppy flower to raise funds for ex-servicemen returning from the First World War: http://www.greatwar.co.uk/people/moina-belle-michael.htm

with a deeper instinct

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." ~~Anais Nin

concentrate

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.~ Buddha