Peaches & Cream
"Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson."
~ Tori Amos


I have found other people's wisdom to be such an inspiration in my life. We all have lessons to learn from one another. If only we take the time to listen. As a society, I feel like we are so intent on being understood, getting our point across. Well, sometimes it's not about getting your point across. Sometimes it is merely about listening to the words and feelings of someone else. And I have found that listening to others will inevitably lead to a better understanding of myself. Then, perhaps, there isn't such a need for *others* to understand you.

It's all about listening.



The only people for me are the mad ones. Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars - Jack Kerouac

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. - Drew Barrymore

I have something incomprehensible to say, like birdsong in the time of war. - Odysseus Elytis

Something has to die in order for us to begin to know our truths. - Adrienne Rich

You can't avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. - Charlotte Joko Beck

Truth shows the way. - Hildegard of Bingen

When you understand how to love one thing ~ then you also understand how best to love everything. - Novalis

There are no holy places and no holy people. Only holy moments, only moments of wisdom. - Jack Kornfield

When we are not sure, we are alive. - Graham Greene

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. - Annie Dillard

Creativity is foremost being in the world soulfully, for the only thing we truly make, whether in the arts, in culture, at home, is soul. - Thomas Moore

These days, much in life is masked. Poetry wears no masks. In taking off the masks we have worn to be safe, to protect ourselves, to win approval, we become less vulnerable. Less alone. Our pain becomes just pain. It is no longer suffering. - Rachel Naomi Remen

Its better for the heart to break than not to break. - Mary Oliver

The time will come when you will write while walking in the dark ~ and instead of banging your shins once again, something unexpected and transformative will happen. - John Fox

We must learn to see the world anew. - Albert Einstein

The more poetic, the more real. - Novalis

There is apparently a fragile bridge between expecting nothing and wanting everything. - Jim Harrison

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 touch, the grace of someone else taking you as you are and finding in you an unexpected goodness. - Rachel Naomi Remen

The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them? - Bob Dylan

Deep love can touch our wounds and transform us. - John Fox

Like the wind that etched a rock face smooth, you can record your truth and loss with your words. - John Fox

What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor Frankl

The invariable mark of wisdom is seeing the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I feel music haunting me and then I have to fill that music with words. - Claribel Alegria

I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. - William Stafford

The poet is a menace to conformity. - Rollo May