Spread Light

It’s been a quiet slow week for me as I’ve been a bit under the weather with a virus. Today I thought I would spread light by sharing some inspiring quotes and poems.

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” – Hafiz

“Beauty surrounds us.”
― Rumi

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
― Oscar Wilde

Mindful

 

Every Day

I see or hear

something

that more or less

kills me

with delight,

that leaves me

like a needle

in the haystack

of light.

It is what I was born for—

to look, to listen,

to lose myself

inside this soft world—

to instruct myself

over and over

in joy,

and acclamation.

Nor am I talking

about the exceptional,

the fearful, the dreadful,

the very extravagant—

but of the ordinary,

the common, the very drab

the daily presentations.

Oh, good scholar,

I say to myself,

how can you help

 

but grow wise

with such teachings

as these—

the untrimmable light

 

of the world,

the ocean’s shine,

the prayers that are made

out of grass?

 

        Mary Oliver

In beauty I walk
With beauty before me I walk
With beauty behind me I walk
With beauty above me I walk
With beauty around me I walk
It has become beauty again

      — Navajo prayer

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton

May you walk in beauty. May you spread light.