Mon 26 Apr 2004
Wendell Berry Quote - Do not tax your life.
Posted by Matthew under Coaching, Leadership, Nature, Poems, Spirituality, Sustainability
This quote struck me last night at the Soulful Sundown by Wendell Berry. Perhaps this is what woke me this morning.
When despair of the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief ~ what a powerful line!!
I realized that that is where so many of us lay in life - ruining tomorrows before today has yet to turn bright.
STOP THAT! RIGHT NOW PEOPLE!
TAKE A WALK OUTSIDE - SEE the WORLD as it REALLY IS - not the one inside our heads!