While there is still time

"If you can’t seem to make yourself happy, do little things to make other people happy. This is a very effective magic trick. Focus on...

“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actual...

"Every year a given tree creates absolutely from scratch ninety-nine percent of its living parts. Water lift...

"Time is kept and curated in different ways by trees, and so it is experienced in different ways when one is among them. This discreti...

I can scarcely wait till tomorrow when a new life begins for me, as it does each day, as it does each day. from ...

All That Is Glorious Around Us is not, for me, these grand vistas, sublime peaks, mist-filled overlooks, toweri...

"Indeed, even though all monks are committed to the same task, deep down - as doctors or hospital construction workers are - the detai...

Making the House Ready for the Lord Mary Oliver Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed but still nothing is as shining as it should ...

"We all have something within ourselves to batter down, and we get our power from this fighting. I have never 'produced' a pla...

One Brilliance frost in the dried weeds— sometimes it takes the cold for things to find their shine. Rosemerry T...

"How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright-day wo...

This World   I am alone making guacamole, and he is on a plane getting ready to act out marriage rituals with people who will stop calling...

"As you integrate ignorance and failure into your knowledge and success, do the same with all the alien parts of yourself. Take everyt...

"What I really mean … is be passionate, fall madly in love with life. Be passionate about some part of the natural and/or human worlds...

Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presen...