Healing Quotes and Poems

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

-Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary

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Healing Quote of the Day

We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. — Malala Yousafzai More about activist Malala Yousafzai

Walkers with the Dawn

Langston Hughes Being walkers with the dawn and morning, Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness– Being walkers with the sun and morning. More about Langston Hughes

Healing Quote of the Day

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You …

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Lobocraspis Griseifusa

Ted Kooser This is the tiny moth who lives on tears, who drinks like a deer at the gleaming pool at the edge of the sleeper’s eye, the touch of its mouth as light as a cloud’s reflection. In your dream, a moonlit figure appears at your bedside and touches your face. He asks if …

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Healing Quote of the Day

  Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. — Mary Jean Irion From the book Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation

Real Work

Shawna Lemay And still, years into it, one questions what is one’s ‘real work’ and how to be faithful to the work, how to show greater patience. How to be patient with one’s life, with the lives of others. And maybe, also, the further we delve into our ‘real work’ the more we are aware …

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Healing Quote of the Day

  To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. –Nelson Mandela

In the Healing Garden

Kelly Price Just above the deadly nightshade Three long spider threads float. Each one, anchored on a nearby tree branch, Has been abandoned by it’s industrious creator For something Other. Yet, they celebrate their uselessness In the most regal way possible; Waving their soft, silken arms in the breeze, They send undulating shimmers of light …

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Healing Quote of the Day

Ignorance is excusable and can easily be remedied.  Fear is only natural when one is lost in the forest.  But the anger?  And the enmity and epithets?  And all the unkind condemnation and infliction of harm?  Can’t we figure out how to dispense with that?  Has it ever been productive or useful in any way …

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Landscape Survey

John Brehm And what about this boulder, knocked off the moutaintop and tumbled down a thousand years ago to lodge against the streambank, does it waste itself with worry about how things are going to turn out? Does the current slicing around it stop itself mid- stream because it can’t get past all it’s left …

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