"We don't know where our gift will bear
fruit, but we do know that our gift is
required...What permission are you
waiting for before you feel as if you could
offer your gift with ease and playfullness
and grace?

What is your gift to the family of the Earth?"

--Wayne Muller

"Who has not sat,
anxious, before the curtain of his heart?"

-- Ranier Maria Rilke

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you,
You must travel it for yourself.
It is not far, it is within reach,
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know.

– Walt Whitman

It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day

It will begin to happen
Again on earth--

That men and women who are married,
And men and men who are
Lovers,

And women and women
Who give each other
Light,

Often will get down on their knees

And while so tenderly
Holding their lover's hand,

With tears in their eyes,
Will sincerely speak, saying,

"My dear,
How can I be more loving to you;

How can I be more
Kind?"

--Hafiz

Reality is always kinder
then the stories
we tell about it.


--Byron Katie