The house without a window is hell;

to make a window is the essence of true religion.

Don't thrust your ax upon every thicket;

come, use your ax to cut open a window.

Rumi

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Nikolai Gogol

Morning Prayers

video: Oorações da Manhã


"Drift like a breath

and learn your way

through the day."

--William Stafford

Incantations

Beach Sculptures with Arvo Part

"I survive by incantation."

--Czelaw Milosz

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

Your bare feet in sand,

Here, gusts of heat;

At your back, white clouds.

You stare and stare.

It seems you were called for this:

To glorify things just because they are.

after Milosz