LOVE, TEA & ME
Reflection in the moonlight
If we only knew what tomorrow will bring...we would love harder than ever today.
People are often taken for granted in this life until we look up one day and notice that they're gone. It is then we start to realize just how important they once were but we was too busy to notice.
Please let's love one another while we still can because tomorrow might be too late.
-Gina
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"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.
Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really...How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
BEAUTIFUL, INTELLIGENT AND TALENTED
A Born Entertainer
EXERCISING A COMPELLING CHARM WHICH INSPIRES DEVOTION IN OTHERS.
MS. Swarn has such “poise” and charisma, the way she speak, her disposition simply remarkable. Graceful and Elegant 🙏
THE SHELTERING SKY QUOTES
DEEP THOUGHTS
1. "Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
THE SHELTERING SKY QUOTE
2. "How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
3. "THE SOUL IS THE WEARIEST PART OF THE BODY."
- PAUL BOWLES, THE SHELTERING SKY
4. "HOW FRAGILE WE ARE UNDER THE SHELTERING SKY. BEHIND THE SHELTERING SKY IS A VAST DARK UNIVERSE, AND WE'RE JUST SO SMALL."
- PAUL BOWLES, THE SHELTERING SKY
5. "WHEREAS THE TOURIST GENERALLY HURRIES BACK HOME AT THE END OF A FEW WEEKS OR MONTHS.
THE TRAVELER BELONGING NO MORE TO ONE PLACE THAN TO THE NEXT, MOVES SLOWLY OVER PERIODS OF YEARS, FROM ONE PART OF THE EARTH TO ANOTHER.
INDEED, HE WOULD HAVE FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO TELL, AMONG THE MANY PLACES HE HAD LIVED, PRECISELY WHERE IT WAS HE HAD FELT MOST AT HOME."
- PAUL BOWLES, THE SHELTERING SKY
PRETTY GAZE
7. "She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."
THE GREATEST GIFT
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body [a]to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [b]puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, [c]thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is [d]perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.