You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong. - David Whyte

We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire, we do not love them for their desire. If what we loved in them was their desire, then we should love them as our self.” When