we need her…

Don’t yearn to be a philosopher.
Don’t yearn to be a great teacher..
The insight you can offer pales in comparison to Mother Nature…
Step outside your ego and steep yourself in her wisdom…
Her truths are timeless…
She doesn’t need us…
We need her…

~ J. Marion Brown

the healing…

The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unsuspected goodness…

~ Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

Silent Communication…

Silence is noisy until we become accustomed to it. In silence we can hear the sound of our own pulse and heartbeat, the flowing rhythms of our own blood in our veins, – and the rhythm of the Universe – in the inner ear. When we quiet the endless verbal chatter echoing through our language-filled brains, there is a quieter, more universal mode of communication and knowing waiting to be tapped…

~ T. Manekshaw