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“A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.”
― Jeff Buckley

“Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.”
― Jeff Buckley

“Peace, love, empathy”
― Kurt Cobain

“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
― Kurt Cobain

“I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film”
― James Dean

“Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten,
And thereby the warm life of reason congealed.
A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam,
Like as the Dragon's tail dulls the brightness of the moon.”
― Rumi Masnavi-I Ma'navi

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”
― Miller Williams

“You must try,
the voice said, to become colder.
I understood at once.
It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze,
braced in stone. Only something heartless
could bear the full weight.”
― Jane Hirshfield

“The Cloudy Vase

Past time, I threw the flowers out,
washed out the cloudy vase.
How easily the old clearness
leapt, like a practiced tiger, back inside it.”
― Jane Hirshfield

“A soft woman
is simply a wolf
caught in meditation.”
― Pavana पवन

“I have rain in my heart
dirt in my bones
and flowers in my soul.”
― Pavana पवन

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
― Hafiz of Shiraz

“I called her name into the fold between night and day.”
― Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

“If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over—and then what?”
― Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

“Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.”
― Pema Chodron

“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”
― T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Solar Eclipse

Each morning
I wake invisible.

I make a needle
from a porcupine quill,
sew feet to legs,
lift spine onto my thighs.

I put on my rib and collarbone.

I pin an ear to my head,
hear the waxwing's yellow cry.
I open my mouth for purple berries,
stick on periwinkle eyes.

I almost know what it is to be seen.

My throat enlarges from anger.
I make a hand to hold my pain.

My heart a hole the size of the sun's eclipse.
I push through the dark circle's
tattered edge of light.

All day I struggle with one hair after another
until the moon moves from the face of the sun
and there is a strange light
as though from a kerosene lamp in a cabin.

I pun on a dress,
a shawl over my shoulders.

My threads knotted and scissors gleaming.

Now I know I am seen.
I have a shadow.

I extend my arms,
dance and chant in the sun's new light.

I put a hat and coat on my shadow,
another larger dress.
I put on more shawls and blouses and underskirts
until even the shadow has substance”
― Diane Glancy

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider."

[Autumn]”
― Jane Hirshfield

“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
― Wendell Berry

“Like every experience that marks us for a lifetime, I found myself turned inside out, drawn and quartered. this was the sum of everything I'd been in my life--and more: who I am when I sing and stir-fry vegetables for my family and friends on Sunday afternoons; who I am when I wake up on freezing nights and want nothing more than to throw on a sweater, rush to my desk, and write about the person I know no one knows I am; who I am when I crave to be naked with another naked body, or when I crave to be alone in the world; who I am when every part of me seems miles and centuries apart and each swears it bears my name.”
― André Aciman

“The best way of handling astrological transits is to go with the flow. If the Universe is leading you to a certain place by hook or by crook, there’s probably a reason.”
― Cate East, Success Astrology: Your Celestial Map of Success

“Retrograde mercury is the only enemy that writers have.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Nobody's future is written in the stars, but we can use the stars to help write our future”
― Carolyne Faulkner, The Signs: Decode the Stars, Reframe Your Life