Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight
Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight.
Mary-Oliver
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. / I do know how to pay attention.
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it
Instructions for living a life: / Pay attention. / Be astonished. / Tell about it.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?
The world offers itself to your imagination
The world offers itself to your imagination.
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
You do not have to be good...
You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.
Profile: Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was an American poet whose accessible nature poetry examined attention to the natural world. Her work invited readers to observe closely the ordinary aspects of nature - …
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“This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness” - Mary Oliver