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Rumi This being human is a guest-house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture. still, treat each guest honorably. He may […]
Danna Faulds There is no controlling life. Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado. Dam a stream, and it will create a new channel. Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet. Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground. The only safety lies in letting it all in— the […]
Joy Harjo Muscogee (Creek) Nation Praise the rain; the seagull dive The curl of plant, the raven talk— Praise the hurt, the house slack The stand of trees, the dignity— Praise the dark, the moon cradle The sky fall, the bear sleep— Praise the mist, the warrior name The earth eclipse, the fired leap— […]
Mark Nepo Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced, no father who won’t let one life be enough, no lover who measures their worth by what you might give up, no voice that tells you in the night […]
Mark Nepo I wish you the ability to breathe after pain, to begin again, though nothing else seems possible. I wish you resilience: to part like the ocean and accept like the sky, to be held like a root. I wish you survival: to take in life like a trapped miner finding an airhole […]
Elizabeth Carlson I am falling in love with my imperfections The way I never get the sink really clean, forget to check my oil, lose my car in parking lots, miss appointments I have written down, am just a little late. I am learning to love the small bumps on my face the big […]
Katie Spurlock When there are two versions of my mirror’s reflection, which one is faithful? Is one a lie, a caricatured story in the starry haze of my mind? Is the other the true essence that sees through the meteor shower protecting my heart? Or perhaps, the most perfect of unholiest unions of the […]
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Over and over we break open, we break and we break and we open. For a while, we try to fix the vessel—as if to be broken is bad. As if with glue and tape and a steady hand we might bring things to perfect again. As if they were ever […]
David Whyte When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be […]
Judy Brown There is a trough in waves, A low spot Where horizon disappears And only sky And water Are our company. And there we lose our way Unless We rest, knowing the wave will bring us To its crest again. There we may drown If we let fear Hold us within its grip […]
Tara Mohr I walked backwards, against time and that’s where I caught the moon, singing at me. I steeped downwards, into my seat and that’s where I caught freedom, waiting for me, like a lilac. I ended thought, and I ended story. I stopped designing, and arguing, and sculpting a happy life. I didn’t […]
Rosemerry Wahotola Trommer If I am to hold the world in my heart, then let me hold it the way leaves hold sunshine, trapping the energy not for the sake of holding it, but to transform it into nourishment. Though the process isn’t simple, it’s common. All around the globe, in every season, leaves […]
Joy Harjo a woman can’t survive by her own breath alone she must know the voices of mountains she must recognize the foreverness of blue sky she must flow with the elusive bodies of night wind woman who will take her into her own self look at me i am not a separate […]
Just be real friend. Be who you are, and where you are at. That’s enough, and it’s the only way forward. Most of us have put on enough masks in our life time, to have completely forgotten our original face. We’ve become far too clad with the heavy coats of expectation, suffocating under the weight […]
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