The Royal Mountain

Sometimes the mountain is hidden form me in veils of cloud, sometimes I am hidden from the mountain in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue, when I forget or refuse to go down to the shore or a few yards up the road, on a clear day, to reconfirm that witnessing presence. -Denise Levertov

You dare your yes--and experience a meaning. You repeat your yes--and all things acquire a meaning. When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a yes. -Dag Hammarkjold

"All first-hand experience is valuable, and he who has given up looking for it will one day find that he lacks what he needs: a closed mind is a weakness, and he who approaches persons, or painting, or poetry without the youthful ambition to learn a new language and so gain access to someone else's perspective on life, let him beware." -Dag Hammarskjold

"The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that I exist." -Dag Hammarskjold

I shall keep singing! Birds will pass me On their way to Yellower Climes-- Each--with a Robin's expectation-- I--with my Redbreast--And my Rhymes--  Late--when I take my place in summer-- But--I shall bring a fuller tune-- Vespers--are sweeter than Matins--Signor-- Morning--only the seed of Noon--                      -Emily Dickinson