"As soon as you have made a thought ...."

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Lao Tzu

"You walking, ...."

You walking, your footprints are

the road, and nothing else;

there is no road, walker,

you make the road by walking.

By walking you make the road,

and when you look backward,

you see the path that you

never will step on again.

Walker, there is no road,

Only wind-trails in the sea.

Antonio Machado, “Proverbs and Tiny Songs”

"The eyes of the future ...."

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.  They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come.  To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle.  Perhaps the wildness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace.  Wilderness lives by this same grace.  Wild mercy is in our hands.

Terry Tempest Williams

"Keep playing the fool ...."

Keep playing the fool. … you really get into a rut if you have too many of (dreams) … You end up aiming for the expectations instead of just living the life that comes to you – the foolishness helps you respect your dreams without getting too weighted down by them.

Joan Erikson

"I am certain ...."

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of the imagination.

John Keats