Quotes April 26, 2021

When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.
Jean Klein
 
 
 
 
In the cherry blossom’s shade
there’s no such thing
as a stranger.
Kobayashi Issa
 
 
 
 
Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazing touch.
Annie Dillard
 
 
 
 
For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
 
 
 
Words act as a compass. Place speech serves literally to enchant the land; to sing it back into being and to sing one’s being back into it.
Robert Macfarlane
 
 
 
 
Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.
Esther Perel
 
 
 
 
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest.
Adyashanti
 
 
 
 
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John Muir
 
 
 
 
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
Daniel J. Levitin
 
 
 
 
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
 
 
 
 
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one’s bias.
Phyllis Rose
 
 
 
 
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.
Shozo Tanaka
 
 
 
 
Deep down, very few of us want safety to suffocate freedom.
Joel Salatin