One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tugat your ankles. "Mend your life!"each voice...

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of...

The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your feet ... 

Simplicity, patience, compassion, These three are your greatest treasures, Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are, Compassionate toward yourself,you...

Shock brings success. Shock comes ... oh oh! Laughing words ... ha ha!.  The shock terrifies for a hundred miles. And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice. When a man has learned within his heart what fear and trembling mean, he is...

​It is not necessary to venture so far as to trust the Unknown, but it is essential to dispense our distrust of it ... We know that the situation is important and therefore we distrust ourself and Fate to carry us through.  We should resist this fear before it...

Heading into 2020,the Christmas festivities behind us, how quickly we can forget those wishes for peace we extended to friends and family.  Already planning the year ahead; planning to get on, to get ahead, to move forward.  We live in a world of activity;...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our Life's StarHath had elsewhere it's setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness.And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we comeFrom God, who is our home :Heaven...

How surely gravity's law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of even the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world ...This is what the things can teach us:to fallpatiently to trust our heaviness.Rainer Maria Rilke: Book of Hours

We would rather be ruined than changed.We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.W. H. Auden