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Posted on Feb 14th, 2008 by hrtScholar : with one Heart... hrtScholar
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Spread out your hands, lift up your head, open your eyes, and we'll pray…. 

   Annie Dillard

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              From Sonnets to Orpheus

A tree climbed there. O pure uprising!

O Orpheus sings! O towering tree of hearing!
And all was still. Yet even in that hush
a new beginning, hint, and change, was there.

 

Creatures of silence pressed from the bright
freed forest, out of lair and nest:
and they so yielded themselves, that not by a ruse,
and not out of fear, were they so quiet in themselves,

 

but simply through listening. Bellow, shriek, roar
seemed small in their hearts. And where there was
just barely a hut to receive it,

 

a refuge out of their darkest yearning,
with an entrance whose gatepost trembled –
there you crafted a temple for their hearing.
                       Ranier Rilke

warriorHeart

expanding my gaze
     your sky,
                                                   (kind, divine, infinite, yes)
  illuminates a path
                    home..  
            Namasté
         tess

"I believe that peace lies within the small and the magnificent. Born in blades of grass, living in golden sunlight, filtering through dusty shadows that whisper of tinkling piano keys. Growing in the quiet that can be found in a world that is never silent, and dying in the abandon that comes after the rain, only to be born again." sonya kitchel
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'Tell us more about your home, Charlie,' Hijohn said. ‘Who owns the water?' 

cardiffBytheSea

…'Nobody owns it. You can't own water where I come from.' 
‘Somebody's got to own it,' Littlejohn said. ‘Somebody always does.' 
'We believe there are Four Sacred Things that can't be owned,' Bird said. ‘Water is one of them. The others are earth and air and fire. They can't be owned because they belong to everybody. Because everybody's life depends on them.'

from Starhawk. The Vision of the City. Nov 2007 


this moment


 


 

                        


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