Is This What Being Vulnerable Feels Like?
i’ll run the risk
of being intimate with brokenness.
~ Sleeping At Last
To Tell the Modes Apart
Mindfulness practice doesn’t eliminate my personal narrative. It gradually changes my relationship to it.
How the Earth Sees Us
How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of the earth meets the passion of the human eye, invisible depths strain towards the mirror of the name.
In the word, the earth breaks silence. It has waited a long time for the word. Concealed beneath familiarity and silence, the earth holds back and it never occurs to us to wonder how the earth sees us. Is it not possible that a place could have huge affection for those who dwell there?
~ John O'Donohue
The Beautiful Fragility
Let it come closer, let it engulf you if it must.
Until there is no division between self and sadness.
Until you cannot call it sadness at all.
Until there is only intimacy.
~ Jeff Foster
Finally Paying Attention to All of Myself
"How do I understand that I am enough for the mere fact that I exist?"
~ Jennifer Moon
Turning to Me
"Our voices echo in the spray
and steam of this room where once,
long ago, he knelt at the tub’s edge
to pour cups of bathwater over my head."
For No Good Reason
"One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, I hope that you will love me for no good reason. But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another – to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers. Especially to strangers, who have neither good nor bad reasons to love us."
~ Russell Banks, from The Angel on the Roof
Our Memory of the Moments
“What we know of other people
Is only our memory of the moments
During which we knew them.”
~ T.S. Eliot
Life In All Its Boldness
"Every day we could choose to be intimate rather than distant, bodily rather than mental."
~ Thomas Moore