Kristen

“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

“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

“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

“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