3

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

4

When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.

4

In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger.

tintanankin:
🌸🌸🌸
wissportsfan:
How sweet @tintanankin
7

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazing touch.

josyi:
Oh ! Thanks for remember me this day ! 😍
5

For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.

4

Words act as a compass. Place speech serves literally to enchant the land; to sing it back into being and to sing one's being back into it.

5

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

wissportsfan:
That's awesome.
7

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest.

6

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

4

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.