I Part Out- Wendell Berry
I part out the thrusting branches and come in beneath the blessed and blessing trees. Though I am silent there is singing around me. Though I am heavy, there is flight around me.
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Best of Any Song - Wendell Berry
Best of any song is bird song in the quiet, but first you have the quiet.
Life Is Garden - Bokonon
Life is a garden, not a road We enter and exit through the same gate Wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice
Gift - R.S. Thomas
Some ask the world and are diminished in the receiving of it. You gave me only this small pool that the more I drink from, the more overflows me with sourceless light.
Whatever It Is - Saigyo
Whatever it is, I cannot understand it, although gratitude stubbornly overcomes me until I am redicred to tears.
For Nothing Is Fixed - James Baldwin
For nothing is fixed. forever, forever, forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, leaves cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
All You Can Do - Ram Dass
All you can do for another person is be an environment in which, if they wanted, to come up for air, they could.