To Find a Steady Center: Mary Oliver

To Find a Steady Center: Mary Oliver

It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another...
To Find a Steady Center: Mary Oliver

To Find a Steady Center: Rabindranath Tagore

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high  Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth  Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards...
To Find a Steady Center: Mary Oliver

To Find a Steady Center: Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between...
To Find a Steady Center: David Whyte

To Find a Steady Center: Yehunda Amichai

From the place where we are right  Flowers will never grow In the spring. The place where we are right  Is hard and trampled Like a yard. But doubt and loves Dig up the world  Like a mole, a plow And a whisper will be heard in the place Where the ruined...

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