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My heart rouses
“My heart rouses thinking to bring you news of something that concerns you and concerns many men. Look at what passes for...
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Lost
“Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here. And you must treat it as a powerful stranger. Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest...
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Walk slowly
“It only takes a reminder to breathe, a moment to be still, and just like that, something in me settles, softens, makes space for imperfection. The harsh voice of judgment drops to a whisper and I...
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My Life Before I Knew It
“I liked rainy days when you didn’t have to go outside and play. At night I’d tell my sister there were snakes under her bed. When I mowed the lawn I imagined being famous. Cautious and stubborn,...
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After years
“Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face of a glacier slid into the sea. An ancient oak fell in the Cumberlands, holding only a handful of leaves, and an...
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I possess tremendous power
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to...
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Silence of the moment
“I abandon all that I think I am, All that I hope to be, All that I believe I possess. I let go of the past. I withdrawal my grasping hand from the future. And in the great silence of the moment, I...
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Being watchful
“As soon as I felt a necessity to learn about the non-human world, I wished to learn about it in a hurry. And then I began to learn perhaps the most important lesson that nature had to reach me: that I...
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Messenger
“My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my...
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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
“Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a...
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer
“When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard...
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Notice
“I know that we notice what we notice because of who we are. We create ourselves by what we chose to notice. Once this work of self-authorship has begun, we inhabit the world we have created. We...
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The winter of listening
Shared with me by my close friend Hugh . . . “No one but me by the fire, my hands burning red in the palms while the night wind carries everything away outside. All this petty worry, while the great...
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Awaken
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” ~ Carl Jung
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Keep it simple
“They mocked me when I was singing the songs Trying to get back to something more simple than we have They mocked me ‘cos I told it like it was Wrote about disappointment and greed Wrote about what we...
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