Yesterday I saw an egret standing like a sentry in an open field where once there was a Chevron. There are signposts everywhere.
Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own. Listening, standing witness, creates an openness to the world in which the boundaries between us can dissolve in a raindrop.
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
And there’s John O’Donohue:
Fluent
I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
