Sublime

Get a life in which you are generous. Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take the money you woul

When the moisture goes out of our lives, and we’re no longer able to see beauty or converse with magic, we must ask ourselves how we can replenish our well-ness.

Because it’s the quotidian minutes of our lives that will go on forever, that will tell us who we were, who our neighbors and our mothers were, when we were too diligent in thinking they were nothing like us.

Everyday life is so often isolated, dreary, and lonely. A little craving is understandable. A little craving might actually be the rallying cry of survival.

Your everyday life makes up your whole life.

the effects of inevitable change on a place you know and love, even as your memory clings to the familiar contours of its past.

It is a joy to be hidden but a disaster not to be found.

It’s impossible to experience solitude regularly for any extended length of time without personal passions and authentic longings surging to the surface of your awareness.