Love After Love, by Derek Walcott
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to […]
The Well of Grief, David Whyte
Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning down to its black water to the place that we can not breathe will never know the source from which we drink the secret water cold and clear nor find in the darkness the small gold coins thrown by those […]
The Journey, Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to […]
On Commitment, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help […]
Mindful Eating ~ First Four Bites
Cultivate Mindfulness and Presence through the First Four Bites of any meal Take a bite, put the fork (spoon, chopsticks, apple, sandwich, whatever is in your hands) down! Enjoy breathing all the way in, all the way out and all the way in again. One and a half conscious breaths. And say to your self, […]
