Driving west tonight, the city dissolves behind us.
I keep feeling we’re going farther than we’re going,
a journey that started in the deep inkwell
out of which our days are written.
Nothing is said to indicate a monument,
yet I perch on the edge of some new light.
-Naomi Shihab Nye, Lights from Other Windows
Thank you to my dear friend Denise for sending this right when I needed it.
The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning.
-Sam Shepard
The secret of life is not about knowing what to say or do. It’s not about doing love or loss right. Life cannot be handled. The secret is simply to show up. It’s about witnessing it all, even the pain, and letting it touch you and make you not harder, but more tender. Showing up, feeling it all – this is my new kind of prayer. I call it praying attention, and it’s how, for me, everything turns holy.
-Glennon Doyle Melton
Our intention is to affirm this life – not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation – but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it’s own accord.
~ John Cage
Another beauty from First Sip. I know, I’m a broken record, but check it out!
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
-Eckhart Tolle
Thank you to Kerry, on whose lovely blog Next Trip Around the Sun I found this perfect line.