Inspiration

Teach me to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing,

the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit.

Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my sacred space

and love beyond my fear,

and thus walk in balance with the passing of each glorious sun.

- First Nations Lakota prayer

When you do things

from your soul

you feel a river moving

in you,

a joy.

- Rumi

Take refuge in your senses, open up

To all the small miracles you rushed through.

- John O’Donohue

This sky

is no place

to lose our wings

so

love, love, love.

- Hafiz

Love After Love

The time will come

when, with elation

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

- Derek Walcott

Your Heart is the size of an ocean

Go find yourself in it’s hidden depths.

- Rumi