“I find that mindfully taking a moment to ritualize my intentions helps me to will that best, most exalted self into being.” Mya Spalter
Rest in Peace, Mary Oliver
Wild Geese You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the […]
Beyond intentions
Good intentions are not enough. They’ve never put an onion in the soup yet. Sonya Levien
Defining a gift
“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.” ― Seneca, Moral Essays: Volume III
Jung on enlightenment
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Defy and define the darkness
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” ― Anne Frank
The Uses of Sorrow Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness.It took me years to understandthat this, too, was a gift. ~ Mary Oliver, Thirst
Darkness will make you strong
“The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
An enormous privilege and adventure
“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; … Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been […]
Ancient, timely wisdom
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. -The Talmud
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