Quotes & Poems 💗

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

Henry David Thoreau

"Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought."

Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice

« When I want to summon strength and power in the midst of awfulness and hate, I contemplate water.

Our ideas of strength so often surround images of things that are hard—like rock or even a clenched fist. Perhaps that’s why we think love doesn’t include strength, just softness. We are thinking in only one dimension. That’s why I think of water,

My soul tells me, we were
all broken from the same nameless
heart, and every living thing
wakes with a piece of that original
heart aching its way into blossom.
This is why we know each other
below our strangeness, why when
we fall, we lift each other, or when
in pain, we hold each other, why
when sudden with joy, we dance
together. Life is the many pieces
of

“Style is a very simple matter: it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an

“Connectedness to yourself, to other people, and to the world—those are the three dimensions that are measurable in meaning in life."

John Vervaeke, The Lectern

i didn’t eat the sun

ire’ne lara silva

but

it

poured

into

me

I didn’t eat the ocean but the waves of the

south the east the west and the north

lapped against my feet and my soles drank

in the saltwater i didn’t eat the roads but a

thousand miles of asphalt rebuilt my bones

filling in all the faultlines all the places worn

down to breakage i didn’t eat the monte