Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.
— Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story.
Photo: Huffinton Post. Quote: The Vale of Soul Making
Tag: meditate
It may take God
Today, God, help me focus on a peaceful pace rather than a harried one.
I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically.
Help me let go of my need to be anxious, upset, and harried.
Help me replace it with a need to be at peace and in harmony.
~ Melody Beattie, from “Going Easy” in The Language of Letting Go
Photo: Alejandro García Restrepo via I Hear It in the Deep Heart’s Core
Saturday Morning
Silence
will carry your voice
like the nest that holds the sleeping birds.
~Rabindranath Tagore, from Stray Birds
Notes:
Quotes: Your Eyes Blaze Out. Photo: Sarah Treanor with “still life” (via Your Eyes Blaze Out). Find all of Stray Birds @ eldrichpress.org.
It’s been a long day
Absolute Patience
An absolute
patience.
[…]
So absolute, it is
no other than
happiness itself, a breathing
too quiet to hear.
– Denise Levertov, from “The Breathing” in Poems: 1960 – 1967; “O’ Taste and See”
Notes:
- Source: Poem – American Poems via .all too human.
- Photo: Pauline by NerySoul via Your Eyes Blaze Out
- Related Posts: Denise Levertov