When your mind is prey to what the Buddha called “unwholesome states” like fear and despair and you feel like you’re losing heart, it’s time to cut yourself some slack.

~Sylvia Boorstein

when I no longer need the same wishes….

inquiry for today~ coming to heart….

forever care

And whoever thinks these are worthy words I am writing down is kind. Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion. Come walk with me into the field of sunflowers is a better line than anything you will find here, and the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them.

~Mary Oliver