Love is the answer to all problems. No matter what the problem is, if you will just apply love to the fullest extent possible and succeed, that problem will drop away immediately. Just don't get aggravated. Just know that everything is fine, everything is alright and just feel love and you'll see that problem resolve itself, no matter how difficult a problem is. When there are problems, if we would love more they would disappear. When love is complete, the problem dissolves immediately.
From " The Power of Love" by Lester Levenson

The only way of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party.
John Keats

Thanks to Steven Murphy for these great photographs!

Letting Go

They say that in India there is a particularly clever way of catching monkeys. As the story goes, hunters will cut a hole in a coconut that is just big enough for a monkey to put its hand through. Then they will drill two smaller holes in the other end, pass a wire through, and secure the coconut to the base of a tree. Then they put a banana inside the coconut and hide. The monkey comes down , puts his hand in and takes hold of the banana. The hole is crafted so that the open hand can go in but the fist cannot get out. All the monkey has to do to be free is let go of the banana. But it seems most monkeys don't let go !