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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your kn… for a hundred miles through the de… You only have to let the soft anim… love what it loves.
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
Scatterghost, it can’t float away. And the rain, everybody’s brother, won’t help. And the wind all these… flying like ten crazy sisters ever…
From a single grain they have mult… When you look in the eyes of one you have seen them all. At the edges of highways they pick at limp things.
Did you too see it, drifting, all… Did you see it in the morning, ris… An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and li… into the bondage of its wings; a s…
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird with its white eyes
I’d seen their hoofprints in the deep needles and knew they ended the long night under the pines, walking
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories,
Meditation is old and honorable, s… not sit, every morning of my life,… looking into the shining world? Be… attended to, delight, as well as h… Can one be passionate about the ju…
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her poc… full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone o…
Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, lik… the wings of a moth in the beak of… Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me.
The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the… to buy me, and snaps the purse shu… when death comes