Molly

“Humiliation is mostly something we try to avoid, but it is something more often, all for the best, in retrospect. There is a lovely root to the word, the Latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returned to the ground of our being. Any fancy ideas we have about ourselves are shriven away by the reality of the moment. We come to earth with a thump. It may be a narrow piece of ground, but at least it is real and at least it is our own.”
― David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

“Don’t run, go slowly,
It is only to yourself that you have to go!
Go slowly, don’t run,
For the child of yourself, just born and eternal
Cannot follow you.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened? As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning. Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe? To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.”
― Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

“Help is strangely, something we want to do without, as if the very idea disturbs and blurs the boundaries of our individual endeavors, as if we cannot face how much we need in order to go on.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words