Beloved Is Where We Begin – Jan Richardson
https://www.afirstsip.com/2021/02/beloved-is-where-we-begin.html
Immersion – Denise Levertov
https://www.jonathanbyram.com/Immersion
Quote from Ram Dass: “See everything as God in drag.”
Quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.: “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” From his April 1960 address at Spelman College.
https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/relationships-love/g25936251/martin-luther-king-jr-quotes/?slide=5
Excerpt from Hymn to Inanna – Enheduanna (translated by Jane Hirshfield)
Enheduanna was the world’s first known poet (that is, the first to attach their name to a poem). She lived more than 4,200 years ago. For more about Enhduanna, go to https://lithub.com/why-has-no-one-ever-heard-of-the-worlds-first-poet/
For the full text of the poem, go to https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/157578/from-the-hymn-to-inanna
Impermanence – Thich Nhat Hanh
https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-value-of-impermanence.html
The Story of the Zen Farmer – Anonymous
https://mindfulness.com/mindful-living/are-these-bad-times-or-good-times-the-story-of-the-zen-farmer
Quote from multiple sources: “Life doesn’t happen to us, it happens for us.”
Quotes from Ram Dass:
“We are fascinated by words, but we meet in the silence behind the words.”
“We’re all just walking each other home.”
Self-Pity – D.H. Lawrence
https://wordsfortheyear.com/2014/01/05/self-pity/
The Orange – Wendy Cope
https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange
On Talking – Kahlil Gibran
https://poets.org/poem/talking
