KINDNESS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. 

What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. 

How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. 

You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

You must wake up with sorrow. 

You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say. 

It is you I have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

Estamos aquí para curar, no para dañar.

Estamos aquí para amar, no para odiar.

Estamos aquí para crear, no para destruir.

El Gran Misterio

Wakan Tanka

AMABILIDAD por NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Antes de saber qué es realmente la bondad, debes perder cosas, sentir que el futuro se disuelve en un momento como la sal en un caldo debilitado.

Lo que tuviste en tu mano, lo que contaste y cuidadosamente guardaste, todo esto debe irse para que sepas cuán desolado puede ser el paisaje entre las regiones de la bondad.

Cómo viajas y viajas pensando que el autobús nunca se detendrá, los pasajeros comiendo maíz y pollo mirarán por la ventana para siempre.

Antes de que aprendas la tierna gravedad de la bondad, debes viajar donde el indio con un poncho blanco yace muerto al costado del camino.

Debes ver cómo podrías ser tú, cómo él también fue alguien que viajó a través de la noche con planes y el simple aliento que lo mantuvo con vida.

Antes de que reconozcas la amabilidad como lo más profundo del interior, debes conocer la tristeza como la otra cosa más profunda.

Debes despertar con tristeza.

Debes hablarle hasta que tu voz atrape el hilo de todos los dolores y veas el tamaño de la tela.

Entonces es solo la amabilidad la que ya tiene sentido, solo la bondad que ata tus zapatos y te envía al día a enviar cartas y comprar pan, solo la bondad que levanta la cabeza de la multitud del mundo para decir.

Es a ti a quien he estado buscando, y luego va contigo a todas partes como una sombra o un amigo.

La religión es para la gente que tiene miedo al infierno.

La espiritualidad es para personas que ya han estado allí.

Halcón Corriendo

Nación Lakota

(Cresta de Pino)

HAPPY MOTHER's DAY!

This is the first Mother's Day that my wife & I are both motherless.

I want to honor their love for us by enjoying the animal kingdom displaying a mum's love along with quotes that remind us of the vital role of a mother!

"A mother’s love grows by giving." ― Charles Lamb

"Motherhood doesn't have a nationality." ― Melinda Cross

"The phrase "working mother" is redundant." ― Jane Sellmans

"The best academy, a mother's knee." ― James Russell Lowell

"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest." ― Spanish Proverb

"Men are what their mothers made them." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." ― Henry Ward Beecher

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." ― Lin Yutang

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." ― Oprah Winfrey

"A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive." ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." ― Abraham Lincoln

"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like." ― Arnold Bennett

"The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother." ― W. C. Fields

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." ― Mark Twain

"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness & children sleep soundly in them." ― Victor Hugo

"Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." ― Erich Fromm

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." ― Oscar Wilde

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not." ― James Joyce

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ― Theodore Hesburgh

"Mom — the person most likely to write an autobiography & never mention herself." ― Robert Brault

"Mother is the name for GOD in the lips & hearts of little children." ― William Makepeace Thackeray

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." ― Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." ― Maya Angelou

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." — Marion C. Garretty

"When you look into your mothers eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth." — Mitch Albom

"Motherhood is like Albania ― you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there." ― Marni Jackson

"The tie which links mother & child is of such pure & immaculate strength as to be never violated." ― Washington Irving

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." ― Cardinal Mermillod

"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it." ― W. D. Howells

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." ― Honore' de Balzac

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all." ― Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I remember my mother's prayers & they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." ― Abraham Lincoln

"Motherhood: The most exhausting, emotional, rewarding & life-enhancing journey a woman can take." ― Charlotte Pearson

"I love my mother as the trees love water & sunshine — she helps me grow, prosper, & reach great heights." ― Terri Guillemots

"There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — & an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own." ― Robert Brault

"How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it." ― Jules Michelet

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." ― John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing." ― Toni Morrison

"Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard & planted by the water; it was fruitful & full of branches because of abundant water." — EZEKIEL 19:10

"What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only GOD's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf." ― Richelle E. Goodrich

"By & large, mothers & housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class." ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." — Tenneva Jordan

"Education commences at the mother's knee, & every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character." ― Hosea Ballou

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things & crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." ― Agatha Christie

"Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions." ― Nancy Stahl

"The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother — which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician." ― Sydney J. Harris

"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter & wound up as Picasso." ― Pablo Picasso

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, & the smile that lights on the first born babe, & assures it of a mother's love." ― Thomas C. Haliburton

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual & physical education I received from her." ― George Washington

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos & threes, by dozens & hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers & sisters, aunts & cousins, comrades & friends — but only one mother in the whole world." ― Kate Douglas Wiggin

"No language can express the power, & beauty, & heroism, & majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, & grows stronger where man faints, & over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star." ― Edwin Hubbell Chapin

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy & sudden, fall upon us when adversity takes the place of prosperity, when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, & endeavor by her kind precepts & counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, & cause peace to return to our hearts." ― Washington Irving

I thank the LORD for my biological mother who I have never known but without putting me up for adoption, I would not have learned from my Mom how to love children.

Mom will never stop kissing & hugging you!

A mother will always support her child!