a hundred mighty seas...

“Let the drop of water that is you become a hundred mighty seas. But do not think that the drop alone becomes the ocean. The ocean, too, becomes the drop. ”

— Rumi

photo: me.

ten thousand flowers...

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.


~ Wu Men Hui-k'ai ~

Echoes...

This world is like a mountain.
Your Echo depends on you.
If you scream good things, the world will give it back.
If you scream bad things, the world will give it back.
Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him.
Change Your Heart to change the World.

~ Shams Tabrizi

the leaf is singing still....

What can I say that I have not said before?
So I’ll say it again.

The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.

Inside the river there is an unfinishable story
and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until all ends.

Take your busy heart to the art museum and the
chamber of commerce
but take it also to the forest.

The song you heard singing in the leaf when you
were a child
is singing still.

I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four,
and the leaf is singing still.

~ "What Can I Say" from Swan by Mary Oliver ~

photo: Jeni Ascosi, Columbia River Gorge, OR.