What connects us? What holds us together? What are the spiritual and literal bricks, mortar, and cement that help us build bridges that are stable? Bridges of the road and of the soul. Some quotes.
“Love is like a bridge to forever.
This special bridge is built from bricks of trust and the mortar of kindness.
It spans the chasms of time and difficulty.
It is everlasting if we always tend to it.”
~~ME
“Ideals are like stars: You will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
But, like the seafaring man on the desert waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”
~~Charles Schurz
“Defining humility is extremely difficult.
Often it is explained in negatives–“not proud” or “not arrogant.”
To believe one is humble is to guarantee one is not.
Yet, I know humility when I see it, even though I see it rarely, and never in my mirror.
The best definition I’ve heard is perpetual teach-ability.”
~~ME
“There is no death.
Only a change of worlds.”
~~Chief Seattle
“Death is like a shadow cast by the sun;
I have never seen it prevented.”
~~Milarepa
“Naked in death upon an unknown shore.”
~~Virgil
“Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate,
That for destruction ice is also great,
And would suffice.”
~~’Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
~~Thomas Carlyle
“The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.”
~~Rabindranath Tafore
I feel a bit more grounded now, even though I gaze heavenward my feet stay on the ground.
