Love Heart2 (horizontal) by berndt2

I saw two heartthrob movies recently—two tales of love overcoming all obstacles (in an imperfect way, with pure feelings—imperfection for the tribulations, purity for the final triumph), of loss and human weakness and flaws and sacrifice. Two very different films and four very different characters with astonishing similarities (which were also astonishingly not cliché at all). (more…)

prophet (3) by Natasha Tabatchikova

In 11 Minutes, Coehlo writes: “Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives, and it’s up to us to interpret those signs.”

Passion—in all interpretations of the word, I take it. Passion in creation, in forgiveness, in profession, in loving, in life.

Passion  as a means to an end, as the end, as the journey and destination at once. (more…)

Freedom of Expression by Sandra

“Love is not a habit, not a commitment, nor a debt—love simply is.”  –The Witch of Portobello.

It may begin as such—a habit, a commitment, a debt—perhaps?  —but if it is true love, it if it is pure love, you cannot mistake it for long. You will feel its power surging within you, around you, through you—pure love is truth, devotion, sacrifice, selflessness, the fight for peace, timelessness. You will feel its power and you will realize that you’ve fallen in love because of a better world; the world has simply become better because you love…

~Angreek87

World In Hand by Mindy McGregor

What is a decision? A logical conclusion of the thought process? A consequence of events? A catalyst for consequences? A knot in the thread of one’s fate, a silkspun crossroad in life’s web of ways? Have you pressed decisions? Do you grapple with time and reason? Or do you allow the answer to reveal itself, at its own pace, in its own ordained time—ordained by whom, and when? —and agree bravely with it, without qualms; or disagree, without a trace of cowardice… you mean like a decision about making a decision?

To Decide… to Decide to Decide… or Decide Not to Decide… but is that even a decision?

~Angreek87

Seduction by Irene Owens

“In both love and war, we are human—thank God.” –Chronicle: At the End of the Dark Tunnel.

Human, then? Human, with all our flaws; human, in all our capacity for mistakes; human in our innate mercy that need only be awakened; human in our passion that need only be stoked to catch fire?

In love and war we have our deepest, strongest, fiercest emotions awoken—the sunbursts of love, devotion, lust, compassion, selflessness, and the fires of fury, hatred, vengeance, vendetta… two twin passions: twins in the intensity of feeling, opposite in their motives.

Human, we face a ceaseless struggle within us: emotion versus reason; logic versus feeling; doing versus being. One must be in balance with the other; otherwise, when emotion overrides reason, there is love, or there is war. Where there is love, there is capacity for selflessness, jealousy, sacrifice, blindness, and mercy—as in war. They are the two greatest catalysts in the universe—nothing great was ever achieved without passion: the power of love and the drive of war. And as such, they bring out and prove the very best or worst in us all. We are humans, but in the throes of passion we have this vision of being more-than-human, of becoming greater, stronger, deeper, wiser, godlike visions of our souls. This belief—be it illusion or undiscovered ability—is part of that which makes us human, after all.

The core of our nature, the DNA of our emotions, be it the darkness of human flaws or the brightness of “humanness”— ultimately, this is what proves us human—and… thank God.

Angreek87