Even with all our technological accomplishments and urban sophistication, we consider ourselves blessed, healed in some manner, forgiven, and for a moment transported into some other world, when we catch a passing glimpse of an animal in the wild: a deer in some woodland, a fox crossing a field, a butterfly in its dancing flight southward to its wintering region, a hawk soaring in the distant sky.
Thomas Berry : Sunbeams, January 2021
Trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
e.e.cummings
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
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
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises.
Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
Pema Chodron, Taking the Leap, Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
No amount of anxiety
makes any difference
to anything that is going to happen
Alan Watts
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