Mary > Mary's Quotes

“If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.”
― Lao-tse

“She worries about what people say and how they see us. It makes her angry, but she wrings dough instead of her hands.”
― Rena Rossner, The Sisters of the Winter Wood

“Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer

I climb the black rock mountain
Stepping from day to day,
Silently,
I smell the wind for my ancestors
pale blue leaves
crushed wild mountain smell.
Returning
up the gray stone cliff
where I descended
a thousand years ago.
Returning to faded black stone
Where mountain lions lay down with deer.
It is better to stay up here
watching wind’s reflection
in tall yellow flowers.

How I danced in snow-frost moonlight
distant stars to the end of the Earth,

How I swam away
in freezing mountain water
narrow mossy canyon tumbling down
out of the mountain
out of deep canyon stone
down
the memory
spilling out
into the world.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller