Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift..

I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us..

And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, th….

Things take the time they take. Don't worry..

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in aston….

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing..

I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The ….

Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazemen….

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began..

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to ….

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it..

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of….

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are ….

We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body..

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed..

Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the firs….

I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang..

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective..

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness..

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it..