I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
Mary OliverRead
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
Interpretation
Focus on what truly matters in life, which often involves patience and the ability to find wonder in the mundane.
This quote by Mary Oliver emphasizes the importance of being present and attentive to what really counts in our lives, particularly our work and the lessons it can teach us. It suggests that a significant part of our journey involves stillness and the capacity to be amazed by the simple beauty around us, encouraging a reflective approach to life.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth: 'As Mary Oliver once said, let me keep my mind on what matters.'
I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.
I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.
See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things
For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.
One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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