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What is the effort that daffodils make in order to bloom?
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel • Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heart
I bring him Queen Anne’s lace and goldenrod and chicory. I pile clover flowers and knapweed before him. More, more, more. The plants keep coming. The earth keeps giving. I lay the blossoms at my child’s feet. This too is medicine. This is devotion.
Nandi Rose / Half Waif • More Flowers
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For years and years I struggled just to love my life. And then the butterfly rose, weightless, in the wind. “Don’t love your life too much,” it said, and vanished into the world.
Mary Oliver • Dream Work
she stood in the brilliant light she sometimes found herself yearning for the dark green of the forest where ferns turned black in the frost.
Alice Hoffman • Magic Lessons: A Prequel to Practical Magic
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
Jack Gilbert • Failing and Flying
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my mind slid away, like a fish who would not be caught.