Below you will find wisdom sources for you to ponder- poetry, quotations, proverbs.

I have gathered them here because they spoke to me.

If they speak to you, I invite you to use them in meditation, a Lectio Divina, or just enjoy.

Praying- Mary Oliver

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

Hindu Proverb

There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.

Nayyirah Waheed

And I said to my body, softly, “I want to be your friend.” It took a long breath. And replied, “I have been waiting my whole life for this.

Ojibwe Proverb

Sometimes I go about pitying myself,

and all the while I am being carried

across the sky by beautiful clouds.

Marie Beynon Ray

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.