WATCH EVERYTHING. TRANSLATE NOTHING.
~ Manorama D'Alvia
CLEARING
Do not try to serve
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is yours alone to sing
falls into your open cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to the world
so worthy of rescue.
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~Martha Postlethwaite
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~ Willa Cather
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ~ Alice Walker
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~ Agatha Christie
With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
~ Frances McDormand
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
~ Patti Smith
You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. ~ Mary Oliver