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Priscilla Thomas
“Stubbornly, weeds through concrete, my writing has survived. It has clung to me, winding sturdy vines around me. With tending, it bursts into bloom, flourishing under the attention. I realize that I cannot pluck it out any more than I could unseat my beating heart. All I can do is nourish it. Collect it. Gather it, unflinchingly, in my arms.”
Priscilla Thomas, Gathering

Ram Dass
“So we won't take ourselves too seriously. Because taking something serious doesn't make it go away any faster. In fact, it keeps making it a little bit worse.”
Ram Dass, Experiments in Truth

Ram Dass
“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
Ram Dass

Marcus Aurelius
“consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed. Ninth,”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Priscilla Thomas
“The trip ahead would put us in uncomfortable situations for which there would be little prior experience to inform our decisions; it would demand we shift our perspectives and check our timelines at the door; it would push us to reach out to strangers across barriers of language and insecurity; it would require us to acknowledge our smallness in the world. These are hallmarks of a great, life-affirming trip, and we hadn’t even left the country yet.”
Priscilla Thomas, Gathering

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