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A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William Stafford

Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh

Leisure by W. H. Davies

Lost by David Wagoner

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Hope by Lisel Mueller

Vermeer by Howard Nemerov

Moderation Is Not a Negotiation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony by John Tagiabue

“The word is born in silence, and silence is the deepest response to the word.”

"Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life." -Simone Weil

"... violence is a symptom of the illusion that our lives belong to us."

"Although we have learned from parents, teachers, friends and many books, sacred as well as profane, that we are worth more than what the world makes us, we keep giving an eternal value to the things we own, the people we know, the plans we have, and the successes we "collect."

"It is not the movement from weakness to power, but the movement in which we become less and less fearful and defensive and more and more open to the other and his world, even when it leads to suffering and death."