Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups!

They swim the huge fluid freedom.

~ Rumi

The earth delights to feel your bare feet

and the winds long to play with your hair.

~ Khalil Gibran

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours;

Let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

~ Khalil Gibran

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

~ Khalil Gibran

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart!

~ Rumi

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth,

“You owe me.”

Look what happens with a love like that -

it lights the whole world.

~ Hafiz

The stars we are given. The constellations we make.

~ Rebecca Solnit

… desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars,

~ Rebecca Solnit

to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love.

~ Rebecca Solnit

To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild,

~ Rebecca Solnit

to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

~ Rebecca Solnit

I am rooted, but I flow.

~ Virginia Woolf

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second.

~ Virginia Woolf

Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death;

~ Virginia Woolf

Let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says.

~ Virginia Woolf

For nothing matters except life.

~ Virginia Woolf

No need to hurry.

No need to sparkle.

No need to be anybody but oneself.

~ Virginia Woolf

Sing, happy soul, thy songs of joy

Such as a Brook sings in the wood,

That all night has been strengthened by Heaven's purer flood.

~William Henry Davies

We were like to people dreaming,

Thoughts of bliss too bright to stay.

Fill'd with laughter, stood we gazing,

Loud our tongues in rapture sang;

Psalm 126

The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders;

where morning dawns, where evening fades,

you call forth songs of joy.

Psalm 65:8

Therefore my heart is glad,

and my whole being rejoices; 

Psalm 16

My cup runneth over.

Psalm 23

There's a blaze of light in every word;

It doesn't matter which you heard


The holy or the broken Hallelujah.

~Leonard Cohen