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Pat Schneider The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don’t grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming. The world, too, sheds its skin: politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days. It’s easy to lose this tenderly unfolding moment. Look for it as if it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what […]
Maya Luna Things don’t happen for a reason Sweet child No Life doesn’t need a reason For happening It simply blooms forth With breathtaking chaos Rains down on you With senseless beauty And immeasurable heartache You can make up stories If you like About why things happen The way that they happened You can […]
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 […]
Maya Angelou Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make […]
Redwing Keyssar All that’s ahead of me, I don’t know How can I? Such tight circles form the spirals of this life No straight lines No breath is separate from the one before it, or after Each step allows us to see the very next one, That is all Not the illusions or circumstances […]
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 […]
Written by Kenneth M. Keith, but attributed to Mother Teresa People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest […]
John O’Donohue Awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence. Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses. Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon. Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to follow its path. Let the flame of anger free […]
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer I want a word that means okay and not okay, a word that means devastated and stunned with joy. I want the word that says I feel it all all at once. The heart is not like a songbird singing only one note at a time, more like a Tuvan throat […]
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer And if, as I now know, the closet is sacred and the bare room is sacred and the sidewalk and classroom and the ER are sacred, then I trip into the teaching that everywhere is sacred— not only the church, but the alley. Not only the mosque, but the bench. Not […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alison Luterman I don’t know if other people feel like there’s a life running alongside their so-called real life like an access road runs alongside the main highway. It’s funkier, lonelier; You didn’t expect to find yourself on this one- lane frontage path, You kept thinking you’d get on the freeway any minute now, […]
Martha Postlewaite Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how […]
William Stafford There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; […]
Mark Nepo It’s next to impossible to do this alone. We need the loving truth of others to be well. Inevitably, some come with us are forever changed while others watch as we’re forced out to sea. It’s the power of love that enables those who come along, where a language of experience is […]
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