The late great Mary Oliver’s advice for life ❣️ “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
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The late great Mary Oliver’s advice for life ❣️ “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
The poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver with some suggestions for your one precious life:
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On creating meaning, the remarkable odds of your existence, and life instructions
Pay attention
Be astonished
Tell about it
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver said, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
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‘Invitation’ by Mary Oliver
Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy
and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistles
for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,
or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air
as they strive
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver