As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Patience is the ability to watch something until it changes.
Ajahn Sucitto
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Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.
Galway Kinnell, Prayer
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You have to learn to get up from the table
when love is no longer being served.
Nina Simone
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I look;
Morning to night I am never done with looking.
Looking, I mean not just standing around,
but standing around
as though with your arms open.
Mary Oliver, Where does the Temple Begin, Where does it End?
You must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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