Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don't have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.
- Jessamyn West
- Jessamyn West
'Tis a gift to be simple
'Tis a gift to be free
'Tis a gift to come down
Where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves
In the place that's right
'Twill be in the valley
Of love and delight
- Nineteenth-Century Shaker Hymn
'Tis a gift to be free
'Tis a gift to come down
Where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves
In the place that's right
'Twill be in the valley
Of love and delight
- Nineteenth-Century Shaker Hymn
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about...
Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.
-Jalai Ud-Din Rumi
Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.
-Jalai Ud-Din Rumi
The eyes of my eyes are opened. - E.E. Cummings
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. - Patricia Hampl
These quotes are some favorites from a published work in the 90's by Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance. My mother-in-law gifted it to me over ten years ago. I was so humbled by the celebration of Mother's Day this month. I'm so very new at all this-- and grouping me in with some of my all-time favorite humans? Get out.
..but thank you & love you for the honor of it, all of it.
..but thank you & love you for the honor of it, all of it.