"But how did you come burning down..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.”

“It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.”

“Attention without feeling is only a report.”

“I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”

“sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it”

“I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.”

“When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.”

“Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.”