Life can get so complex at times, and we find ourselves so lost in a mess of wanting, over-striving, wishing, buying more stuff, and working harder to “get there” that we forget about the stillness of nature and the importance of simplicity. It doesn’t help that we have constant access to this digital world either. But we can remember to make the choice to stay grounded and connected to what life really is.

~Jon Kabat-Zinn

forgiveness for the days of not knowing….

inquiry for today~ I will leave it all alone….

may it leave you breathless….

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

~Mary Oliver