fly

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

~ Toni Morrison

Soft eyes

Sunrise through the raindrops resting on the window.

To perceive the world through others senses is to find splendor in familiarity, wilderness in one’s backyard, the sacred in the mundane.

~ Ed Yong

To see our own light

We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others.  An interpreted world is not a home.  Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

~ Hildegard of Bingen

Messages

Soul is that unconditioned, mysterious, untamed, undomesticated, unique individual wild core of ourselves which is inextricably connected to the mysteries of wild nature.

– Claire Dunn

Stories

Grasses at sunrise.

There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

~ Terry Pratchett

Love Moves Away

Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.

Love moves away.
The light changes.

I need more grace
than I thought.

~ Rumi

being vulnerable

relaxing in the garden

Being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure.

~ Bob Marley

Blessing

After the storm

Some wish blessings, others pray for them.  Some send blessings and they become one.

~ Joyce C. Lock

a dumb experiment

listening

…We listen to words
so we can silently
reach into the other.

Let the ear and mouth get quiet,
so this taste can come to the lip.

Too long we have been saying poetry,
talking discourses, explaining the mystery outloud.

Let us try a dumb experiment.

~ Rumi

gardeners of the spirit

In the desert.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

~May Sarton