soulful

“All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. Creation has a pattern of wisdom; and we dare not shield ourselves from it, or we literally will lose our soul. We can obey commandments, believe doctrines, and attend church services all our lives and still daily lose our souls if we run from the necessary cycle of loss and renewal. Death

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - rumi 

“Do not become the ones who hurt you. Stay tender with your power. Never fight to injure, fight to uplift. Fight because you know that in this life, you deserve safety, joy, freedom. Fight because it is your life.” - Chanel Miller 

“My garden is riotous, unholy, deliriously glorious! I wish you were here!” - ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER TO BERNARD BERENSON, 24 JUNE 1898

“There is a great battle raging: for my mouth not to harden and my jaws not to become like heavy doors of an iron safe, so my life may not be called pre-death.” - Yehuda Amichai