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Julio 24, 2008
The great opportunity is where you are...
The lesson
which life repeats and constantly enforces is
“Look under foot.”
You are always
nearer to the divine and the
true sources of your power
than you think.
The lure of the distant and the difficult
is deceptive. The great opportunity is
where you are.
Do not despise your own place and hour.
Every place is under the stars,
every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs
Posted by sarita at 12:15 PM
Julio 23, 2008
"Least Action"
Is it vision
or the lack
that brings me
back to the principle
of least action,
by which in one
branch of rabbinical
thought the world
might become the
Kingdom of Peace not
through the tumult
and destruction necessary
for a New Start but
by adjusting little parts
a little bit—turning
a cup a quarter inch
or scooting up a bench.
It imagines an
incremental resurrection,
a radiant body
puzzled out through
tinkering with the fit
of what’s available.
As though what is is
right already but
askew. It is tempting
for any person who would
like to love what she
can do.
Kay Ryan
Posted by sarita at 6:41 PM
Julio 8, 2008
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
Mary Oliver
Posted by sarita at 3:36 PM