The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin

Lessons in patience

Flectere si nequeo superos

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. --Rumi

Shiva, in the Shaivite tradition, is the all pervading eternal primeval consciousness of the universe and beyond. It is upon the ultimate, unchanging time-less reality of Shiva, that Kali (time) does her dance, causing the constant cycles of creation, life and death of all things in the universe. Shiva is the substratum upon which Kali acts. Hence, in this part of the Hindu spiritual traditions, the entire cosmic reality is represented by the dance of Kali (time) upon the changeless all pervading consciousness, Shiva.

'Om Aim hrim klim camundayai vicche svaha!' Dance of Kali Arthur Berzinsh