To tend with care and reverence.

Dorothea Lange

You open a door only to find another door, and then again another. Each doorknob is harder to turn than the previous one. How strong are you? Do you ever wake up afraid without being aware of what it is you fear? It is a nameless fear. All of this only means that you are human, and that is a good thing. None of us has all of the answers.

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Yes
I am still alive
But one day I won’t be
And just who
Is going scribble down
This nonsense for you
Then?

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We start with water and soil. 

Water and soil, add seed and time. The world can produce what we need to eat, but what can we give to the world in return? Our loving kindness. Our hearts. To tend with care and reverence. 

We put seed in soil and in time a new life forms-- the universe, so lovely.

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Sunrise and black coffee
are my morning friends
everyday we are together

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Things that I have found that work; let go of hatred and worry, live simply, give as much as possible, expect nothing.

all of the above by james lee jobe 

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A thief entered the house of a Sufi and found nothing there to steal. As the thief was leaving, the dervish, sensing the criminal's disappointment, tossed him the blanket on which he had been sleeping. 

SA'DI

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We have no idea what we are.

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud

LINKS:

West of Silicon Valley, a poem by T. Zachary Cotler

To the Sea, a poem by Anis Mojgani

Fresh Irish poetry - Everything Gathers Light by Eithne Lannon

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