Posts tagged ‘bolinas’
Wednesday of Hope – Look for the Light
There is light in the darkness. You just have to find it.
– bell hooks
Wednesday of Hope – The Light Always Returns
There is a perfectly still moment right before dawn, when the sun gathers itself and then steps into the dark world and everything is so filled with light that any doubts from that long night are barely a memory. It is the way of all things that the night ends and the light returns. The light always returns.
– Brian Andreas, Story People
Surrender
Surrender
The boat I travel in is called Surrender.
My two oars are instant forgiveness and gratitude—complete gratitude for the gift of life.
I am thankful for the experience of this life,
for the opportunity to dance.
I get angry, I get mad, but as soon as I remind myself to put my oars in the water,
I forgive.Balbir Matbur, Heron Dance Interview (Issue 11)
What Shall You Find?
Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
– Ann Patchett
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is the Way
Hope is not just a feeling. Hope is a way of acting and a way of living.
– Joanna Macy
May My Heart Shine
As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others!
– The Upanishads
Wednesday of Hope – Where Hope Lives
Hope
It hovers in dark corners
before the lights are turned on,
it shakes sleep from its eyes
and drops from mushroom gills,
it explodes in the starry heads
of dandelions turned sages,
it sticks to the wings of green angels
that sail from the tops of maples.It sprouts in each occluded eye
of the many-eyed potato,
it lives in each earthworm segment
surviving cruelty,
it is the motion that runs the tail of a dog,
it is the mouth that inflates the lungs
of the child that has just been born.It is the singular gift
we cannot destroy in ourselves,
the argument that refutes death,
the genius that invents the future,
all we know of God.It is the serum which makes us swear
not to betray one another;
it is in this poem, trying to speak.– Lisel Mueller
