People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget.

- Stephen Carpenter

Knowing that she loved me, hoping that she loved me, opened some kind of door in my heart. And all the love I'd forgotten or pushed away came flooding back in.

- Sherri Lee Emmons

September Self-Love

Here are some ways to love you today!

1) When making a life choice, consider your heart. What choice would make it soar? Do that!

2) Tell yourself, in the mirror, “I love you. I love myself. I love ______ (insert your first name).” Try it for one week, every morning and night. You will be amazed at the difference in how you feel.

3) Listen to your needs and take action to fill them. Make this a top priority.

4) In your love life, let every choice be an extension of your love for yourself. If a choice doesn’t honor you, don’t make it. Put your health and happiness first.

5) Feed your spirit. Sit in a meditative posture and take a few moments to hug yourself while doing deep, gentle breathing. Feel your heart and use the mantra
“love” repeating it every few minute to focus on love for self, love for nature, love for the universe. Open a little bit more each time to love and feel the love the Divine has for you. It’s unconditional. Absorb it. Let it fill your body and expand within you and commit to giving that same unconditional love to yourself daily.

This September bring your focus to self-love and feel any old hurts melt away as you wash them with deep, encompassing self-love.

By Amy Leigh Mercree

By the time you swear you're hers, shivering and sighing.
And she vows her passion is, infinite and undying.

Make note of this:

One of you is lying.

Because no one can love like you and I darling.

― Dorothy Parker & philoism

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

- Rumi

Think I'll just fall to pieces
If I don't find something else to do
This sadness never ceases
I'm still in love with you

My head, it keeps on reeling
It's got me in a crazy spin
Darling, darling, darling
Is this the end?

Still in love with you

They say time has a way of healing
Dries all the tears from your eyes
But darling it's this empty feeling
My heart can't disguise

After all that we've been through
I try my best but it's no use
I guess I'll keep on loving you
Is this the end?

Now that it's all over, woman
There's something I think you should know
Baby, baby, think it over
Just one more time before you go

Call on me baby
If there's anything I can do for you
Call on me baby
Help me see it through

I'm still in love with you

- Sade

More of Aquarius - by Carole Ann Somerville

There is more to astrology than the sun sign so it must be remembered when talking about zodiac sign characteristics that a person's rising sign and how all the planets combine in a chart also make up their personality. For that reason, this is a fun look at the Aquarius in romance.
There is no-one more unpredictable than an Aquarian. It's very difficult for anyone to understand you and in some way, your love-life will probably be 'different' to everyone else's idea of romance.

Now you like to talk about love and you certainly have an eye for an attractive member of the opposite sex. You'll like to admire but you're uncomfortable if others admire you. Why? Well, it makes you feel as if eventually you'll have to make a decision. Commitment or not? And the word commitment makes you want to run a mile.

Love Games People Play

You really aren't in a hurry to get involved in the love-games people seem to love to play. When your pals are getting excited over who's going out with whom, there are other much more interesting things you'd rather get up to. Aquarius is a sociable sign but you don't like to get too close to people.

In your childhood you will have had lots of mates but few real friends. And because of this, it might be difficult to change your way of thinking to allow for the normal ways of nature. - To allow you to get close to a member of the opposite sex.

Once that time comes, you'll need someone who has a very understanding nature. I've already said that you don't give too much of yourself away so that person will have to be patient and never too demanding. I've also mentioned your many interests and your sociable personality. Well, even when involved in a twosome, you will want to carry on with these. You will intend to continue your relationships with everyone you get on well with and if your partner shows some jealousy here, problems will result.

Aquarius in Relationships

You really aren't a person who likes to be tied to any routine. When you leave the house, you don't like to commit yourself to a special time for returning. Likewise, you won't want to have to admit to every place you're going. If you feel your partner's keeping tabs on you, your rebellious nature might start to show.

The physical side of love is fun. Aquarians enjoy it. Then again, you have to be in the mood. Sometimes you're hot, sometimes cold and sometimes your partner will wonder whether they'll ever get to understand you.. - Probably they won't! But on bearing this in mind, you really will find it difficult to handle a passionate lover who thinks more about sex than any other aspect of your relationship.

Aquarius Compatibility

Aquarius, you need someone who is essentially intellectually compatible with yourself. Next, he or she must understand your need for freedom and allow you to continue your relationships and interests outside your partnership. You have a thoroughly modern outlook to romance and if your lover shares this, there should be no problem.

You might get on well with the signs: Gemini, Libra, Aries and Sagittarius

Dating an Aquarius Woman

Ruled by Uranus, the Aquarius woman has a haunting, magnetic appeal which captivates the opposite sex. As lovely as she may look, she is also very intelligent. Intellectual rapport means more to her than sexual compatibility. In love, she will shine. This woman won't ask for demonstrative displays of affection. She won't be fooled either by false declarations of love.

There is something elusive about the Aquarius, and to keep her interested, her lover must be willing to offer her something exciting and new. She loves spontaneity. Her approach to love is more in terms of ideals and drama, than of practicality. Romance, for this woman is sacred, reposeful and recreational all at the same time! Her lover must accept her independent personality

How to Woo and Win Aquarius Woman

The Uranus-ruled Aquarius girl enjoys the unusual. She has a sociable nature and is happy to be part of a crowd while at the same time remaining a degree detached. Few people get really close to her.

Romance - like all areas of her life - can be unpredictable and her wonderful sense of drama will add a tinge of excitement to her courtship. She's a unique lady who will not tolerate a man who wants to keep her tied to the home and family. Not particularly in a rush to make a firm commitment, her man must have something exciting and individual to offer before she even thinks about marriage.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

- Rumi

I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

― Shana Abé

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

― Woody Allen

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

― Charles Bukowski

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

- John O'Donohue

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.

- John O'Donohue

All that I am, all that I have
I lay them down before you, oh Lord
All my regrets, all my acclaims
The joy and the pain, I'm making them yours

Lord, I offer my life to you
Everything I've been through
Use it for your glory
Lord I offer my days to you
Lifting my praise to you
As a pleasing sacrifice
Lord I offer you my life

Things in the past, things yet unseen
Wishes and dreams that are yet to come true
All of my heart, all of my praise
My heart and my hands are lifted to you

Lord, I offer my life to you
Everything I've been through
Use it for your glory
Lord I offer my days to you
Lifting my praise to you
As a pleasing sacrifice
Lord I offer you my life

What can we give
That you have not given?
And what do we have
That is not already yours?
All we possess
Are these lives we're living
That's what we give to you, Lord

Lord, I offer my life to you
Everything I've been through
Use it for your glory
Lord I offer my days to you
Lifting my praise to you
As a pleasing sacrifice
Lord I offer you my life
Lord I offer you my life

- Hillsong

Do not feel sorry or guilt for all that has, is and may come to pass. Know that I will love you always. When this black hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise, some which I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, even if I wasn't there to wipe it all away. When your heart is burdened with pain, I will place my palm over your chest and give you the gift of light to let you know that I love you. When you come to me, I will share the remaining of your life with you, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine. This is my gift to you. My unconditional love.

- philoism

You are my angel
Come from way above
To bring me love

Her eyes
She's on the dark side
Neutralize
Every woman in sight

Love you, love you, love you

You are my angel
Come from way above

Love you, love you, love you

- Massive Attack

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7TmC__eDc

Happy Anniversary.

- philoism