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Some of you have called me aloof, and drunk with my own aloneness and you have said, “he holds counsel with the trees of the forest but not with men.” Walt Whitman
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✨New Substack Post✨https://open.substack.com/pub/zachgriffin/p/the-door-is-now?utm_source=app-post-stats-page #poem #poetry #now

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We cannot contain the sacred. Rather, we are to look for it everywhere, and we are to serve it and be liberators of it and one another and in the earth. John Philip Newell

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✨New Substack Post✨ open.substack.com/pub/zachgrif... #poem #poetry

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✨New Substack Post✨ open.substack.com/pub/zachgrif... #poetry #poem

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You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. Florida Scott-Maxwell

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South Mountains State Park, NC

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When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me even as I give it away.

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The person who has not at some point accepted with ultimate resolve and even rejoiced in the absolute horror of life will never take possession of the unspeakable powers vested in our existence.

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Before you tell your life, what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life, what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent. Parker Palmer

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There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost.

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Some books that have gotten me through the last couple months. The Power of Now pretty much saved me.

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Anthony de Mello

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Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death. Anthony de Mello

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Every second of our lives is a participation with everything around us. The only question is whether or not we realize it. How are you participating with the things that surround you today?

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She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth - it's she who drives the loudmouths from the hall and clears it for a different celebration. Rilke

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✨New Substack Post✨https://open.substack.com/pub/zachgriffin/p/magic?utm_source=app-post-stats-page #prose

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Wendell Berry

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✨New Substack Post✨ open.substack.com/pub/zachgrif... #poetry

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Even if the corpse washer binds my jaw shut, you’ll still hear this song coming out of my dead-silence. Rumi

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Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am…Walt Whitman

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Poetry in the larger sense of the word —poems, stories, myths, paintings, dances, dreams - is the most exhilarating and transporting vehicle for travel there is.

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Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering? And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn? Kahill Gibran

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May you fully inhabit every moment. May you allow your full self to unfold in every area of your life. May your eyes be continually opened to the endless possibilities that are always in bloom in the garden of your life.

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Pádraig Ó Tuama (Readings From The Book Of Exile)

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How many times have I passed exactly what I need, only noticing the stream when troubled by thirst. Mark Nepo

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Life happens by to those who inhabit silence. David Whyte

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Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest. Walt Whitman

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Wendell Berry

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I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. John O’Donohue

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Linville Gorge Wilderness, NC

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John O’Donohue (Conamara Blues)

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God surely knows that most people are not malicious as much is mistaken, not deceitful as much is deceived, not ill willed but just terribly ignorant of their True Selves. Richard Rohr

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Indeed, the hell of it all may well be that God will never stop telling us how wonderful we are, while we won't shut up long enough to trust his judgement. Robert Farrar Capon

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You cannot truly forgive yourself or others as long as you derive your sense of self from the past. Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now)

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Pilot Mountain State Park, NC

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Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now)

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