Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver

Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

And this is what I learned: that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness — the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books — can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.