Risks

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out for another is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk revealing your true self.

To place you ideas, your dreams, before a crowdIs to risk rejection.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.To hope is to risk disappointment.

To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard

In life is to risk nothing.

Those who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing,

And become nothing.

They may avoid present suffering and sorrow,

but theyWill not learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live.

Chained by their fear, they are slaves who have forfeitedTheir freedom.

Only a person who risks is free.

The pessimist complains about the wind;

The optimist expects it to change;

And the realist adjusts the sails.

Is fear preventing you from taking a necessary risk today?

beautiful... (".)

I found a most inspiring quote onthis subject I'd like to share.

Love, without desire to possess,
knowing well that in the ultimate sense thereis no possession and no possessor:
this is the highest love.

Love, without speaking and thinking of "I,"
knowing well that this so-called "I" is a meredelusion.

Love, without selecting andexcluding,
knowing well that to do so means to create love's own contrasts;
dislike, aversion and hatred.

Love, embracing all beings: smalland great, far and near,
be it on earth, in the water or in the air.

Love, embracing impartially allsentient beings,
and not only those who are useful, pleasing or amusing to us.

Love, embracing all beings,
be theynoble-minded or low-minded, good or evil.
The noble and the good are embraced because
Love is flowing to them spontaneously.
The low-minded and evil-mindedare included
because they are those who are most in need of Love.

In many ofthem the seed of goodness may have died merely
because warmth was lacking forits growth,
because it perished from cold in a loveless world.

Love, embracing all beings, knowing
well that we all are fellow way
farers through this round of existence --
thatwe all are overcome by the same law of suffering.

Love, but not the sensuous fire that
burns, scorches and tortures,
that inflicts more wounds than it cures --
flaring up now, at the next moment being extinguished,
leaving behind morecoldness and loneliness than was felt before.

Rather, Love that lies like a
soft but firm hand on the ailing beings,
ever unchanged in its sympathy,without wavering,
unconcerned with any response it meets.

Love that iscomforting coolness to those who
burn with the fire of suffering and passion;
that is life-giving warmth to those abandoned
in the cold desert of loneliness,
to those who are shivering in the frost of a loveless world;
to those whosehearts have become
as if empty and dry by the repeated calls for help,
bydeepest despair.

Love, that is a sublime nobility ofheart and intellect which knows,
understands and is ready to help.


Love, that is strength and gives
strength: this is the highest Love.

Love, which by the Enlightened One
was named "the liberation of the heart,"
"the most sublimebeauty": this is the highest Love.

And what is the highestmanifestation of Love?
To show the world the path leadingto the end of suffering.

~Nyanaponika Thera~

bleeding in silence

"..letting a go is just another way to say you love a peson"

puff, me saying those stuff =) talking to different love situations. Some kinnda funny for me saying those things. I don't know that much from that word Love... Now, I'm trying to figure out why do they look for me to confess different confusing situations they undergo. I happy when I personally see them happy because I know that they simply deserve to be. I also feel really sad to see one of them letting a girl he really love go, simply because he's seeing something wrong? within them, treating each other something more than friends without no attachments at all. Sad thing she was commited to someone who was so busy to the fact that his boyfriend has no time for her. And here comes my friend to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of a significant person in her life, as a friend. So sad to think that everything was only out of friendship (though its the foundation of love)... but I personally saw my friend to transform each day, saw him really happy because he was with a person that he chose to be special. As I was telling him, having a space-- a time to think will be a good way to asses themselves if they really felt love.. time will make them realize that they need each other not simply because of the inspiration they give but most especially because they love each other. Time and space doesn't mean that long and distance from each other doesn't always mean separation-- but a way to realize that despite the time and distance that you're not together you feel something different.

It might be hard to do but just think it's just another test of love, its just another way of showing that person that you really love her to the fact that you can sacrifice even you will be bleeding in silence.

just a friend?

Did you ever fall for someone you know you shouldn't?

Try hard to fight your feelings, but you just couldn't?

You fall deeper with each passing day,But try to hide it in every possible way.

He's only a friend, and nothing else--That's the lie you keeping telling yourself.

You keep on saying he's just a bud,But deep inside, you're falling in love.

You get so giddy when you meet his eyes,But keep reminding yourself it isn't right.

A simple glance turns into a stare,

But you pretned that you don't care.

It's "not right" for you two to be.

Is that why you hide it so no one can see?

But how long will you pretend?

Keep lying that he's just a friend?

Perhaps your feelings you can never show.

Perhaps it's "wrong" for him to know.

Your friendship can't be risked over this,

So being his girl is an impossible wish...

--Loving more than friends? (wooh, such a hard thing I thing to do but its part of loving anyway.) You should think whether you should be happy because you're friends or should be sad because that's all you'll ever be.