I do not live happily or comfortably
with the cleverness of our times.
The talk is all about computers,
the news is all about bombs and blood.
This morning, in the fresh field,
I came upon a hidden nest.
It held four warm, speckled eggs.
I touched them.
Then went away softly,
having felt something more wonderful
Than all the electricity of New York City.
Mary Oliver, With Thanks to the Field Sparrow Whose Voice is So Delicate and Humble
Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous [extracts]
Let its weight fall back
into the earth;
for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.
The trees you planted in childhood have grown
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.
Rilke, Part I, Sonnet IV
I have a room all to myself;
it is nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Surrender to the way things want to happen next,
even though this often involves a vast and terrifying loss of control.
Trust the magic that was born into your soul.
Martha Beck
To a disciple who begged for wisdom the Master said,
“Try this out: Close your eyes and see yourself and every living being thrown off the top of a precipice.
Each time you cling to something to stop yourself from falling understand that that is falling too.”
The disciple tried it out and never was the same again.
Anthony de Mello, sj., One Minute Wisdom
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