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

We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.

William Stafford