To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.

Fernando Pessoa

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are a life.

Eckhart Tolle

Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Mary Oliver

Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Annie Dillard

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

Walter Mosley