Doug

“One of the oldest meanings in Hebrew for salvation is being freed from a trap. God releases us from the traps we make for our selves when our self-consciousness shuts itself off from the deep mind, and gives us hope.”
― Maggie Ross, Silence: A User’s Guide, Volume Two: Application

“One or two things are all you need
to travel over the blue pond, over the deep
roughage of the trees and through the stiff
flowers of lightning --- some deep
memory of pleasure, some cutting
knowledge of pain.

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But to lift the hoof!
For that you need
an idea.

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For years and years I struggled
just to love my life. And then

the butterfly
rose, weightless, in the wind.
"Don't love your life
too much," it said,

and vanished
into the world.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself”
― rupi kaur, Milk and honey

“You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.”
― Steven Cuoco