Ginny

“The body knows. When your heart sinks. When you feel sick to your gut. When something blossoms in your chest. When your brain gloriously pops. That’s your body telling you the One True Thing. Listen to it.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

“She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.”
― Miranda July, The First Bad Man

“We’ve learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“The Tao Te Ching says, “The enemy is a shadow you yourself cast.” The
shadow wanders our unregarded hours where we hold resentments,
where we are lost, when there is nothing and no one to blame, though we
keep on blaming. I often wonder what is the light that hits the ego, casting
out the shadow? It is gratitude. And if the ego is gone, as it is when we are
truly grateful, there is no one to cast a shadow. We can replace blame with
gratitude—in any circumstance. Blame builds up walls around the self and
points only outward. Gratitude opens the heart, dissolves the self, and
points everywhere.”
― Terrance Keenan, Zen Encounters with Loneliness