Still, what I want in my life

is to be willing

to be dazzled—

to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even

to float a little

above this difficult world.

I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.

I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—

that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum

of each flawed blossom rising and fading.

And I do.

~Mary Oliver

when I find myself in doubt…

inquiry for today~ feel the cadence of full-on life experience….

measuring the day for sweetness….

You, darkness, of whom I am born–

I love you more than the flame

that limits the world

to the circle it illuminates

and excludes all the rest.

But the dark embraces everything:

shapes and shadows, creatures and me,

people, nations–just as they are.

It lets me imagine

a great presence stirring beside me.

I believe in the night.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke