Tag Archive for: meditative poetry

Fire by Judy Brown
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‘Fire’ by Judy Brown

What makes a fire burn is space between the logs, a breathing space. Too much of a good thing, too many logs packed in too tight can douse the flames almost as surely as a pail of water would. So building fires requires attention to…
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - air

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your…
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower

by Rainer Maria Rilke Buddhist scholar, environmental activist and author Joanna Macy is reading Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower". Embedded from Krista Tipett's On Being Podcast. Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower Quiet…
Giacomo Leopardi

L’INFINITO Giacomo Leopardi

"Always dear to me was this solitary hill and this hedge, which, for its part, excludes most of the horizon. But sitting and gazing at such endless spaces that stretch with their profound and serene silences, my wandering thoughts nearly…
inspirations

Inspirations

W.A. Mozart John Cage Adrienne Rich Coco Chanel MOMA Berlin Philharmonic silk Japanese kimonos Jim Jarmush David Bowie BAUHAUS Marina Abramovic Jackson Pollock Jagoda Buic Marcel Proust kindness dancing nature silence