Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there you have a solid place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don’t go off somewhere else!
Kabir says this:
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.

Kabir

Renew thyself completely each day;
do it again, and again, and forever again.

Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden

Intuition is the reliability slumbering
at the base of rational experience.

Suzuki, from Nurtured by love

I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.

It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

Madame de Sevigne

All life is being lived.
Who is living it, then?
Is it the things themselves,
or something waiting inside them,
like an unplayed melody in a flute

Rainer Maria Rilke

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.
It was what I was born for -
to look, to listen, to lose myself
inside this soft world -
to instruct myself
over and over in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant -
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab, the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
How can you help but grow wise
with such teachings
as these -
the untrimmable light of the world,
the ocean’s shine,
The prayers that are made
out of grass?

Mary Oliver