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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
Mary Oliver • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Be in da moment of course
How God, or the gods, are invisible, quite understandable. But holiness is visible, entirely. It’s wonderful to walk along like that, thought not the usual intention to reach an answer but merely drifting.
Mary Oliver • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the
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Meditation, so I’ve heard, is best accomplished if you entertain a certain strict posture. Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree.
Mary Oliver • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Me af lol
Of course I wake up finally thinking, how wonderful to be who I am, made out of earth and water, my own thoughts, my own fingerprints— all that glorious, temporary stuff.
Mary Oliver • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.
Mary Oliver • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one.
Mary Oliver • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Reminds me of that Tic Nat Hanh quote about you can only be happy if you are aware of it
How would it be to be Percy, I wonder, not thinking, not weighing anything, just running forward.
Mary Oliver • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.