Healing the whole

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves

Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down
we shall laugh
and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

D.H Lawrence


You do not have to be good
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves

Tell me about dispair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whowever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Mary Oliver