If your kindness exceeds your wisdom,

Your wisdom will endure.

If your wisdom exceeds your kindness,

Your wisdom will not endure.

Pirke Avot 3:12; Ethics of the Sages: Pirke Avot

The less there is between who I am and what I experience – between in here and out there – the less I need to process, filter, or cipher from my head to my heart. Nepo

Even when we can’t see, we know to feed ourselves. Even when the way isn’t clear, the heart still pumps. Even when afraid, the air of everything enters and leaves the lungs. Even when clouds grow dark, the sun still pours it’s light earthward.

African proverb

“… why ruin a perfectly good question with an answer?…”

taken from: Things That Join the Sea and the Sky by Mark Nepo

I would rather be fooled than not believe. Nepo

What we reach for may be different,

But what makes reach is the same. Nepo

We could never have guessed

We were already blessed

Where we are…

James Taylor

Show me your face before your parents were born. Zen koan

Put down what you carry, open the door, and take up only what you need to bring inside. Nepo.