What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. – Mary Oliver

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. – 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
Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – 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