you do not have to be good.
you do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
you only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
-mary oliver

let the beauty we love be what we do.
there are hundreds of ways to kneel
and kiss the ground.
-rumi

when i dare to be powerful
in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important
whether i am afraid.
-audre lourde

how did the rose ever open its heart
and give to this world all of its beauty?
it felt the encouragement of light upon its being.
otherwise we all remain too frightened.
-rumi

your exact errors make a music that nobody hears.
your stumbling feet find the great dance walking alone.
and you live on a world where stumbling always leads home.
-william stafford

when someone deeply listens to you,
your bare feet are on the earth
and a beloved land that seems distant
is now at home within you.
-john fox

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.
-david whyte

this is the time
for you to compute the impossibility
that there is anything but grace.
now is the season to know
that everything you do is sacred.
-hafiz

i still believe
we are capable of attention,
that anyone who notices the world
must want to save it.
-rebecca baggett