Instructions for living a life:Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it.
02305 – Instructions
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02207 – The Most Regretful People
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
02197 – The Soul: Built Out of Attentiveness
Ten times a day something happens to me like this--some strengthening throb of amazement--some good swing empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
02115 – What I Have Learned So Far
Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime,...
01768 – Praying
It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another...
01554 – Not Just a Visitor
When it's over, I want to say:all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroomtaking the world into my arms.I don't want to end up simplyhaving visited this world. from New & Selected Poems
00087 – Unexpected Joy
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this...