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What I Have Learned So Far Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit to no labor in its cause? I don’t think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness begins with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of — indolence, or action. Be ignited, or be gone. - Mary Oliver Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. http://www.danawyss.com/
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If You Want a True Friend Just open your hands and say "I don't know." Say it softly and wait, so your other can see that you mean it. Give them a chance to drop what they think is secret. Let them come up with a cup of what matters from the spring they show no one. Let them sigh and admit that they don't know either. Then you can begin with nothing in the way. Go on. Admit to the throb you carry in your heart. And let the journey begin. -by Mark Nepo, from The Way Under the Way Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. http://www.danawyss.com/  Image / Bessi via Pixabay
Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest breathing like the ones in the old stories who could cross a shimmering bed of dry leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere. Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and to stop what you are becoming while you do it, questions that can make or unmake a life, questions that have patiently waited for you, questions that have no right to go away. - David Whyte, "Sometimes", from Everything Is Waiting for You Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. http://www.danawyss.com/  Image / WikiImages from Pixabay
What things are steadfast? Not the birds. Not the bride and groom who hurry in their brevity to reach one another. The stars do not blow away as we do. The heavenly things ignite and freeze. But not as my hair falls before you. Fragile and momentary, we continue. Fearing madness in all things huge and their requiring. Managing as thin light on water. Managing only greetings and farewells. We love a little, as the mice huddle, as the goat leans against my hand. As the lovers quickening, riding time. Making safety in the moment. This touching home goes far. This fishing in the air. - Linda Gregg, "We Manage Most When We Manage Small" from All of it Singing, Graywolf Press Dana Wyss Healing Arts Breathe deeply, practice often, be well. http://www.danawyss.com/ |
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