“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
~Margaret Atwood

"The very things we wish to avoid, reject, and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes."  ~Andrew Harvey in Dialogues with a Modern Mystic

Image:  Scorpionweed / Tucson, AZ / March 2012

"To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear." ~Mark Nepo

Image: Mexican Wolf  / Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum  / March 2012

The day has eyes; the night has ears.

 ~David Fergusson

Third quarter moon / March 15, 2012 6:40am / Tucson, AZ

Forgiveness is realizing that what you thought happened, didn’t.

~Byron Katie

Image: Chuckwalla / Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum / March 2012

Love

“The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a call for love.”  ~Marianne Williamson

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Nature notes: Eucalyptus leaf shadows on bark / Tucson, AZ /  January 2012