What is Love?

{All Dionysos Maskaleris poems and -d copyright or copyright pending}

 

"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.” -Dogen

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"A stumble may prevent a fall.” -Thomas Fuller

“In this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.” 

-Oscar Wilde
 

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is.”  -Albert Einstein

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What is love? What I love.
We live in impermanent times.
Something could happen on one of my bicycle journeys or just one tiny particle of some substance of nuclear poison could fall from the sky and cause me harm.
I dream of my death before my time.
But more terribly I dream of the prolonged pain and suffering of many, many bodies and souls.
More important then my life continuing or my name remembered I wish my words, actions or Light to help others.

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THE WAY I PRAY
By Dion

I move with my body
walking or bicycling
on paths or country roads – by desolate places or small farms
in nature among trees and running waters – through mountains or by the sea
I breathe everything in
then I sit without words.

 

I move among people
speaking and listening
striving and letting go – on city streets and between walls
I gaze into people’s faces and I hear them as if I am within them or as if very far away
we touch and we part – though perhaps forever – we always still touching
then I sit without words.

 

I move with writings
through my life and to others lives – over all the earth and to the stars
others writings come alive on the page
with my writings comes pouring out of me
the spiritual despair and ecstasy of all existence
then I sit without words.

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A WAKING DREAM PRAYER
By Dion

I pray as the energy entities have taught me
Some would call them angels
I do not know what they are
They do not speak to me with words
They sing to me with sounds that go beyond my hearing
They bathe me in a Light that goes beyond my sight
In patterns of wavelengths beyond my understanding
Translucent particles of energy
Sing to me and caress me
Within an eternal womb
Giving birth to love

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What is love?
Quotations

“Our bodies and our souls are not our own to have but are the Energy of the Universe’s to give.” -d

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”  -Goethe [or what business is it of mine? -d] 

“Love doesn’t sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.”

-Ursula K. LeGuin 

[Love is remade constantly whether we partly direct it or not. -d] 

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”  -Albert Einstein
[I partly agree about that in regards to romantic love or limerence but in regards to ‘being love’ – I believe love is a force that influences gravity and all the forces of physics. -d]

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‘Every Cell has Consciousness’ a book by Dr. Candace Perk

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“Love is an action not a feeling.” -Scott Peck from ‘The Road Less Traveled’

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“Love is not just fixing/doing something for someone in pain or to get a feel good connection. Sometimes love is just listening and feeling ones pain and just being present to ones loveliness. Sometimes love is the joy of the unstrived for grace and serendipity of healing and connecting in a great physical and spiritual touching” -d

“Faith without works is dead.” -Jesus
 

“Works without love is samsara.”
[What Sidhartha told me in a dream -d]
“i am not as cool as Jesus or Sidhartha but we are all Christ and Buddha Energy.” -dion

 

“Inferior function: In Jung’s topology, that function of the four functions of behavior (thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition) which has not been developed and hence has remained inferior. It is the opposite of the strongest or Superior function – for instance, with a thinking personality feeling is usually less developed.”  -These definitions of Jungian Terms from Marie Louise von Franz

 

“Thinking=logic   feeling=emotions   sensation=physical   intuition=spiritual” -dion

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“My ‘functions’ in the order of strengths I believe are: feeling, thinking, sensation, intuition. The first three for me I believe are very strong – intuition I believe I could cultivate and trust more.” -d 

 

“You do not have an inferior function, it has you.”  -Carl Jung 

 

“Love does not act unaware. The greatest love manifests at the same time in equal and powerful actions of thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition.  Evolving these functions is love.”  -d

 

“And sometimes love is just listening and being present to an energy that just is.” d 

 

“The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” -Talmud

 

“The only abnormality is the inability to love.” –Anais Nin

 

“To love mankind is easy; to love man is hard.” -Jewish saying

 

“Where there is love, no room is too small.” -Jewish saying

 

“You are the mind of God – the awareness of God – looking at its self – everywhere you look it’s a mirror – every atom – every molecule – every tacion in the Universe – this is your mirror – this is who you are.” —“So realize your true identity which is awareness – consciousness that is awake and observing everything around.”—-“This eternal self observes all as it really is.”—“Enlightenment has nothing to do with what you have accomplished in your human form – all it has to do with is what you know about yourself – and if you knew yourself as eternal consciousness that never dies – has never been harmed in the first place – doesn’t have to heal from anything – doesn’t have to fix anything – not even the personality – if you know this about yourself and have had direct experience – direct, experience – not just hearsay – but experience it for yourself – – – this, is enlightenment.”—“…and realize you are eternal awareness looking around you. This is enlightenment. And this is what you have been searching for. And the strange thing about it is that it’s so simple.” —“You can have it – right now – just by shifting your awareness.” -Christine Breese Advaita Enlightenment Awaken Shanti Om ESP

 

“Know thy self.” -Inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi .

 

“I look for the joining of the inner and outer Light of atoms, stars and human souls.” -d 11-09-04

“I see this Light joining every moment and I see this Light now. And I forget every moment that this ‘All light’ is everywhere. I forget the moment of now that is eternity. Whether I remember or I forget, each moment that is eternal always remembers me and is always connected to everything.” -d 5-28-08

 

“When we reflect inwardly & outwardly we become beacons of enlightenment & life.” -d 11-09-04

 

“What the #$@! do I know about love?” (Maybe more about me acting in & being in lovelessness) –d

 

“We cannot ‘have’ love, we can only give it.” -d

“Being in love is being alive. Being life is being love. Life beings are love beings.”-d  

 

“When choosing someone to love (or when love chooses us); how everlasting & how deep the love is, depends on certain forces that causes tension & entropy & certain forces that juxtapose & balance the harmonious qualities of the people & relationship. Our shared interests are often not as important as our physical chemistry. Our physical chemistry is usually not as important as our troublesome or complementary negative & positive habits. At times habits are not as important as the directions we are going in changing or getting around them. At times what we aspire for or the directions we actually go are not as important as our innate values or our core being that remains relatively unchanged.  Sometimes opposing or complementing physical, emotional & cognitive impulses, responses & values are not as important as a more deeply innate spiritual love that connects on the same wavelengths of conscious & unconscious experiences. This is the physical, cognitive, emotional & spiritual chemistry & alchemy of love. It is the physics & poetry of love.” –d

 

“When I try to get people to love me who don’t & then I hate them or myself; that is addictive love. When I love those who don’t love me & then I continue & increase my love with powerful thoughts & actions, in balance for myself & for those who don’t love me; that is spiritual love.” -d

 

“Spiritual consciousness, physics & Artistic creativity are one. Intention is causality is creation. Creation >causality >intention = Intention >causality >creation = 00.”-d

 

“I suffer, I know ecstasy, I am stillness – I die, I am born, I am eternal – every moment of my life.” -d

 

“To be a man of action without (ego) attachment to the fruits (outcome) of the action.”  -The Bhagavad–Gita

 

Love is like life – there are many forms – both struggle to exist
We try to define each – both are indefinable
Love is the life force of all living beings – life is the love force of the universe
Life and love are miracles of creation – each are evolving
Life and love in their basic forms are everything – both in their purest forms are one
For humanity and the Universe live for all the moments that each life and each love meets and joins. -d

 

“Love and light reflects, magnifies, distorts, illuminates, blinds and transforms. Know the power and the danger of receiving reflecting and transceiving love and light – the risks and the opportunities – the pain and the ecstasy – the life long flow of dreaming and waking – the eternal dance of love and light.” -d    

 

“Where do I come from? Where am I going? Is there a God? What is life? Why am I here? The answer to these & maybe to all questions are the questions and the caressing answers: What is love? How can we – how can I better love?” -d

 

“I have died many times in my life and it appears that I have died many times on this page

[-d also=died].” -d 01-06-05

 

“For it is in giving we receive 
it is by forgiving that one is forgiven 
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.” -St. Francis

“I digress.” (What I want written on my tombstone) -d 2003 {Said with tears of laughter during a dark time of my soul – in death as well as in life I wish for humor, simplicity and tenderness}

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As vessels [bodies] of love we can receive and transeive love. When we are open conduits of love our vessel and others vessels fill more with love then when we alone try to ‘have’ love.” -d

 

“Love is like starlight, if it really was love once the physical body dies the love lives ever on like after a star dies the Light of the star comes to me and enters me – like lovers the stars are – like starlight your Light always enters me and makes love to my Light.” -d

 

“The Light loves the Darkness and gives of its self so the Darkness will be less lonely. The Darkness loves the Light and gives of its self so the Light can find a place to rest.” -d 

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“Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.” -Chazal
 
“Human beings are evolved in this: if when we look into a mirror, we see the Light of others and the Light of the Universe.” -d  

 

Warrior
Healer
Teacher
Visionary 
(We all are all four, for ourselves and to each other -d)

 

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”  -Mother Teresa

 

“Beautiful moments like springs of water come up unexpectedly. 
Do not trample these places but drink the waters slowly and travel on.” –d

 

“The earliest amoebas first learned to physically separate; later they learned to sexually join. Human beings first learned to socially and psychologically separate from each other; now we are learning to join spiritually. Maybe we are at the same stage evolutionarily and spiritually as the first amoebas.” -d

 

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.“ -Rainer Maria Rilke

 

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”-Rainer Maria Rilke

 

“I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.”  ~Javan

 

“Of what use is love, if you have no one to love?” -Immanuel of Rome

 

“True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall – but you are there to catch them.”  -Author Unknown

“Just because somebody doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.” -Author Unknown

“You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.”  -Author Unknown

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“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”  -Author Unknown

 

“In our pursuit of love, we fly away from it.” –Yes

 

“A human seeking love is like the ocean begging for H2O.” –Yes

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“Home is here and now and love is all there is.” –Yes

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 “We’re all in this together – by ourselves.” -Lily Tomlin

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“Love destroys ones mental equilibrium.” -Jewish Saying

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“Love one another, but make not a bond of Love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” -Kahlil Gibran

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what they have already achieved, but at what they aspire to do.”

-Kahlil Gibran

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Know both the ecstasy of enlightenment and the stillness of the life energy.
Know beings becoming Light and Light becoming beings. 
Know the Light being and know being Light. -d

 

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” –Dalai Lama

 

“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, 
you touch everything.” –Thich Nhat Hanh

 

The way is not in the sky. 
The way is in the heart. -Buddha

 

The flute of interior time is played whether we hear it or not.
What we mean by “love” is its sound coming in. 
When love hits the farthest edge of excess, it reaches wisdom.
And the fragrance of the knowledge! 
It penetrates our thick bodies,
it goes through walls. 
Its network of notes has a structure as if a million suns were arranged inside.
The tune has truth in it.
Where else have you heard a sound like this?  -Kabir

 

Someone who does not run
toward the allure of love
walks a road where nothing
lives. But this dove here
senses the love-hawk floating
above, and waits, and will not
be driven or scared to safety. -Rumi

 

Appear as you are, be as you appear. –Rumi

 

Rumi says: Ecstatic love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

 

Love is a Subatomic Particle

A Poem by Dionysos Maskaleris

They hover and move in circles and they expand and contract and there is a sound of breathing and of sighing and of singing without human words and of a living wind shimmering in golden leaves.
Love though our choice to manifest, ultimately love works like the collective unconscious and love exists like Light and just is.
Love is a subatomic particle that exists within every element and entity and moves between everything.
Loves’ subatomic particles can be directed by carbon based life molecules.
Carbon based life molecules can be directed by loves’ subatomic particles.
I see all this in my mind’s eye and in my eye’s mind
for loves’ subatomic particles can be seen by our mechanically unaided eyes.
I see love is every particle touching every particle in existence.
Loves’ subatomic particles are directed by and assisted by prayer and by poetry and by waterfalls and by birds and humans singing to each other and by the touch
of carbon based life molecules’ skin and by angels. 
All are forms of love – all are particles and waves of a love reaching out to touch all forms of love.
Everything touches everything.
This is the truth.

 

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"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.” -Dogen

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“A stumble may prevent a fall.” -Thomas Fuller

 

“In this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.”  -Oscar Wilde

 

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is.”  -Albert Einstein

 

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it – even if I have said it – unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Buddha 

 

” Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
-Rumi 

What i See
{Not copyrightable}
{In my mind’s eye – in my eye’s mind}
{Always hovering around us}
{Energy entities}
{And also}
{Always emanating from outside and from within}
{Upon every ones face – light lay lines}
{Angels and human souls}
{Every ones face}
{All are living mandalas}
{All this – these Energy entities are what i really do see}

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Songs of my Soul

 

 

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