To Find a Steady Center: Wendell Berry

To Find a Steady Center: Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild...
To Find a Steady Center: Wendell Berry

To Find a Steady Center: David Whyte

I awoke this morning in the gold light turning this way and that thinking for a moment it was one day like any other. But the veil had gone from my darkened heart and I thought it must have been the quiet candlelight that filled my room, it must have been the first...
To Find a Steady Center: Wendell Berry

To Find a Steady Center: Adam Zagajewski

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosĂ© wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one...
To Find a Steady Center: Padraig O Tuama

To Find a Steady Center: Padraig O Tuama

That you were born and you will die. That you will sometimes love enough and sometimes not. That you will lie if only to yourself. That you will get tired. That you will learn most from the situations you did not choose. That there will be some things that move you...
To Find a Steady Center: Marie Howe

To Find a Steady Center: Marie Howe

We saw something at once. And then it was over. Time started up again as if it had never stopped. We saw someone, and it was a soul. and that soul was us, or I, or everyone. We felt we had been waiting only after it had occurred. And once it had happened we were...

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