Alanna

“The form of the poem, in other words, is crucial to poetry’s power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry’s credit: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values, that our very solitudes and distresses are creditable, in so far as they, too, are an earnest of our veritable human being.”
― Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“We cannot allow anything to come between us and our spirituality, or between us and our living process. If we do, we shall destroy ourselves and those around us.”
― Anne Wilson Schaef, When Society Becomes an Addict

“I still believe
I can do anything. Somehow
along the way I never lost
what I see so many people
losing, that hope
never found its way out
of me. So many
forget that we are capable
of magic things, we
can construct our own
futures, as we wish,
as we have always wished.
We are not born believing
in limitations, we emerge
flat on our backs,
we teach ourselves
to walk.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson