Do not let this thing you got go to waste
Do not let your heart be dismayed
It's here by some random disclosure of grace
From some vascular, great thing
​
Get out of your head if it says
"Stay cold and be deathly afraid"
Do not let your spirit wane
Do not let your spirit wane
~Gang of Youths

While the word "change" normally refers to new beginnings,
real transformation happens more often when something falls apart.
The pain of something old cracking apart or unraveling invites us
to evolve instead of tightening our controls + certitudes.

We can acknowledge the unraveling, breaking + cracking as a bearer of truth
​+ even as a gift.
It might be nudging + calling us to embrace a new imagination.
We may emerge less arrogant + presumptuous.
We may have fewer illusions about our power + centrality.
We may become more curious.
​We may become less willing to ally with the empires + powers that have long defined.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
~Sophia Loren

The more simple we are,
the more complete we become.
~Auguste Rodin

And the wind said,
"May you be as strong as the oak,
yet flexible as the birch,
may you stand as tall as the redwood,
live gracefully as the willow
and may you always bear fruit
​all your days on this earth."
Native American Prayer

There is another alphabet,
whispering from every leaf,
singing from every river,
​shimmering from every sky.
~Dejan Stojanović

Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
~Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The real voyage of discovery
consists not in
seeking new lands
but seeing with new eyes.
~Marcel Proust

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
~Isak Dinesen