Happy Hearts Day (and Kung Hei Fat Choy!)
I have exchanged beautiful gifts and good wine and sweet conversation and happy love with the loves of my life - my husband and my children. Now, I want to return the love and blessings of this day to that One Great Love who continues to fill my life with goodness.
From Paramahansa Yogananda's Whispers of Eternity (http://www.ananda.org/inspiration/books/whispers/)
137. Intoxicate Me with the Wine of Thy Love
Intoxicate me with devotion’s wine: I will drink of Thee until death. My earthly desires shall die, and I will live in Thee for ever. A thrilling fountain-spray runs throughout each cell of my body and through each opening of my love for Thee. Saturated with devotion, I will enter the heaven of Thy presence. Blindly groping, the urge of my devotion suddenly flings open the soul’s secret door, and O, what bliss I feel at the sight of Thy light!
140. Nothing Can Steal My Love for Thee
No loud or whispered words of prayer shall steal my love for Thee. With the soul’s unspoken language I will express my urge for Thee. Thy voice is silence, and through my silence, Thou must speak to me and tell me Thou didst love me always, but that I knew it not.
195. I Will Be Thine Always
I may go far, farther than the farthest star, but I will be Thine always! Devotees may come, devotees may go, but I will be Thine always.
I may bound over the billows of many lives, forlorn beneath the skies of loneliness, but I will be Thine always.
The world may leave Thee, while engrossed with Thy playthings, but I will be Thine always. Thou mayest take everything away that Thou gavest me, but I will be Thine always.
Death, disease, and trials may riddle and rend me, and yet, while the embers of memory shall flicker, look into my dying eyes and they will mutely say, “I will be Thine always.”
My voice may become feeble, fail and forsake me, and yet, with the silent, bursting voice of my soul, I will whisper to Thee, “I am Thine always!”
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