Chakra 2: Svadhistana ~ Sweetness • Desire • Power of Relationships • The Right to Feel • Water • Mantra: Yam

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” ― Jim Morrison

“What do you desire?” ~ Alan Watts

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.” ~ Yann Martel

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”  ~ David Wroblewski

We are each of us angels with only one wing.
And we can only fly embracing one another. ~ Lucianao De Crescenzo

“In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, ‘Whatever happened to love?’” ~ Desmond Morris

“Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it’s from nothing that’s manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it’s cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life.” ~ Jayne Mansfield

“In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.” ~ Rumi

“The only currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous

 “What if our religion was each other
If our practice was our life
If prayer, our words
What if the temple was the Earth
If forests were our church
If holy water—the rivers, lakes, and ocean
What if meditation was our relationships
If the teacher was life
If wisdom was self-knowledge
If love was the center of our being.” ~ Ganga White

“We may think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two because two is one and one. We forget that we still have to make a study of ‘and.’” — A. Eddington

“In general, if a couple cannot expand their original rules and boundaries to accommodate personal growth, the relationship disintegrates.” – Caroline Myss 

 “Habits allow us to not think about what we’re doing . . . giving us the illusion of ease. When we are under the illusion of ease, not thinking about what we’re doing. Breathing the same old way, moving the same old way, thinking the same old way we check out of the present, out of happiness itself.” ~ Alex Levin