but love is the sky and I am for you
e.e. cummings
I want nothing but this moment and this love so present that it is taste, touch, sound, the whole body alive, the sky lit by every radiant star, and more than that I hope that we are, I am paying rapt attention for this is the world ablaze in you
Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
what will you do with your days, months or years? we do not know when we will not be here or there or anywhere. Is there someone there was no room to be? Now do more than try.
I don’t know where it all begins…. and I don’t know where it all will end….we’re better off for all that we let in.
Emily Ann Saliers
We're just as we should be better apart than together off and on long enough for us both to know all that remains is that with kisses and tears we let that way of living go let this way of loving come in and finally redeem us
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
e.e. cummings
Why listen? deeds alone matter. I cannot make you long for or dream of me, but what comes next, these dreams will deeds inspire and can birth all we are to do
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent.
Yann Martel
I was anxious for so long, thinking I must please you, all of you say kind words and always take care A stranger in my own life, what good word did I offer my own tender self about the present or longed-for future? Fear, I knew too well, clinging to it, wrapping it around, but it is a fickle friend, I know now Life's less certain than I wish it Only looking back can I know true from false. But it is no opponent. I am welcome here.
time is a tree (this life one leaf)
e.e. cummings
For a long time I thought each day is weight, duty, a stone, not budding tree and now this: my little green life among a multitude, one a single miraculous leaf
The message is simple: only breathe into what you love. This way you feed what matters and cast out what no longer serves you. This is wisdom. And it is exactly through this that you are born.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
This morning I saw the sun as it rose over the far buildings. Is light always lifting this way? Never have I stood, rapt, at this window. Too distracted, busy, late for this quotidian blessing to touch me, remind me to be alive with what is. You know you can go a whole life and might not see this, know you are loved, have always been.
The beginning is always today.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I thought I would know when the tide shifted and feel the beginning of this new life, but it is not that way, we not not always see the hope hatched today or The invitation you give - beginning again - is startling, but this life is always surprising me, and today is no exception
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke
One day I might be brave and let happiness befriend me. Then I will know everything can be trusted to happen just as it needs to. I will know that you can be overtaken by beauty and inexplicable peace and find ways to meet terror without being devoured by it. Just know that this is not a secret to keep but to share: we are all going home together. There is no loneliness too vast; each feeling can become a gateway to what is most true, beautiful and final.
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