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
We have so many allies in this world,
including just the colour blue in the sky.
David Whyte
To be happy at home
is the ultimate result of all ambition
Dr Samuel Johnson
It never ceases to amaze me:
we all love ourselves more than other people,
but care more about their opinion than our own
Marcus Aurelius
The future enters into us,
in order to transform itself in us,
long before it happens.
Rilke
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
