“Meditation, so I've heard, is best accomplished
if you entertain a certain strict posture.
Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree.
So why should I think I could ever be successful?”

~ Mary Oliver

I know, you never intended to be in this world.
But you're in it all the same.

So why not get started immediately.

~ Mary Oliver

Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled –
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.

The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
such an oracular fever!

~ Mary Oliver

“Love yourself.  Then forget it.  Then, love the world.”

~ Mary Oliver

"What is there beyond knowing that keeps
calling to me? I can't
turn in any direction
but it's there."

~ Mary Oliver

“Look, I want to love this world
as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get
to be alive
and know it.”

~ Mary Oliver