A bird gets up every morning and sings its song.
It does not wait to hear what other birds are singing, nor does it look to see if another bird is getting more notice. It knows its song innately and sings.
This is nature: knowing your own song
Michele Oka Doner, 1945 – American artist and author
Do your work,
then step back
– the only path to peacefulness.
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there
W.B. Yeats, Irish Poet, The Two Trees
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
For in the true nature of things,
if we rightly consider,
every green tree is far more glorious
than if it were made of silver or gold
Martin Luther King
If you view everything as practice,
your suffering will disappear.
Shido Bunan, 1603-1676, Zen Master
I do not write every day, I read every day, think every day, work in the garden every day, and recognize in nature the same slow complicity. The same inevitability.
The moment will arrive, always it does, it can be predicted but it cannot be demanded. I do not think of this as inspiration. I think of it as readiness.
Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects
