Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver
Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. – Mary Oliver
When its over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. – Mary Oliver
The path of humanity is always coordinated with heaven and earth in the alternation of movement and stillness. Human energy is always in communion with heaven and earth in the alteration of exhalation and inhalation. – “Heaven and Earth,” c. Ming dynasty work Anthology on the Cultivation of Realiza
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. – Alexander Lowen