Tag: Ecstasy

Love Be Not of Reason

February 14, 2012

There’s no better day than Valentine’s Day to share a love poem. I have long been a great fan of romance poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Love Be Not of Reason is from my own journals…

Love Be Not of Reason

Love be not of reason,

No right nor wrong,

Love be of the season

For which there is no song.

No sense be made of desires

That once can cripple

But, the strongest tree

And, bring mere mortal man

Down to his knee.

Who sayeth that love must be so,

Who speak the words

Of Love and Woe

For truly as the sun doth shine

Your touch upon my lips

Be pleasure that is,

But, yours and mine.

Who knows what aching

Upon thy breast

Does bring your soul to lay and rest;

Weary in the arms of love,

That heal the questions

For which there be no answer.

Love be the stars that shine,

In darkest night

Bright in your eyes;

Love be the sun that rises

To seek a new day

Of pleasure in your arms.

Love be the song of ecstasy

When in its throws

We merge as one.

Love be not of reason

No right nor wrong,

Love be of the season

For which there is no song,

But that only of two hearts

That beat as one

In it’s sweet pleasing.

c. Pamela J. Leavey

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Food For Thought: One Must Have Great Feelings

June 6, 2011

J. Krishnamurti…

In the modern world where there are so many problems, one is apt to lose great feeling. I mean by that word feeling, not sentiment, not emotionalism, not mere excitement, but that quality of perception, the quality of hearing, listening, the quality of feeling -a bird singing on a tree, the movement of a leaf in the sun. To feel things greatly, deeply, penetratingly, is very difficult for most of us because we have so many problems. Whatever we seem to touch turns into a problem. And, apparently, there is no end to man’s problems, and he seems utterly incapable of resolving them because the more the problems exist, the less the feelings become.

I mean by “feeling” the appreciation of the curve of a branch, the squalor, the dirt on the road, to be sensitive to the sorrow of another, to be in a state of ecstasy when we see a sunset. These are not sentiments, these are not mere emotions. Emotion and sentiment or sentimentality turn to cruelty, they can be used by society; and when there is sentiment, sensation, then one becomes a slave to society. But one must have great feelings. The feeling for beauty, the feeling for a word, the silence between two words, and the hearing of a sound clearly;all that generates feeling. And one must have strong feelings, because it is only the feelings that make the mind highly sensitive. ~ The Book of Life

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“When we say that ecstasy is like the drop melting back into the ocean, it must be made clear that we are the drop and the ocean at the same time, just on different levels.” ~ The Path To Love – Deepak Chopra