Just a hopeless thought..

::28-07-05::

“Do you want to talk?” she asked when she sat in front of me. I think she already knew the answer to the question and wasn’t surprised when I chose to say nothing at all. For hours we sat together staring at the surrounding around us as our thoughts shifted with the breeze. Every once in a while she would look over at me and smile in a way that let me know everything would be all right. Every once in a while I would look over at her and see nothing but sincerity.

If you asked me now why I was sad and alone that day, I couldn’t tell you. All I can remember is my best friend’s deeply looking into my eyes, with her soft smile, and the calm reassurance that turned away my fears. No matter what happened I knew she would be there for me just as she was then. A few hours of her time gave me wisdom beyond my years and the memory of her compassion in everything she did for me is one of the few that will never ever fade.

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn

Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.