What is this message that wild animals bring, the message that seems to say everything and nothing? What is this message that is wordless, that is nothing more or less than the animals themselves- that the world is wild, that life is unpredictable in its goodness and its danger, that the world is larger than your imagination.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting lost
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Blaise Pascal
The effect of life in society is to complicate our existence,
making us forget who we really are,
by causing us to become obsessed
with what we are not
Chuang Tzu, 4th Century BC, Inner Chapters
Make yourself a refuge…
There is a lake somewhere
so blue and far nobody owns it.
A wind comes by, and a willow listens
gracefully.
I hear all this, every summer…
That lake stays blue and free; it goes
on and on.
And I know where it is.
William Stafford, Why I am Happy
I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal,
as fragmented people make for better consumers.
Kathleen Norris
Wait awhile, close your eyes, let your breathing stop three seconds or so, listen to the inside silence in the womb of the world, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, re-recognize the bliss you forgot, the emptiness and essence and ecstasy of ever having been and ever to be the golden eternity. This is the lesson you forgot.
Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
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