Spontaneous

Nothing that you can do from conscious intention can, in any way, rival the mystery of the life happening spontaneously within you - right now.

Laurence G. Boldt 

Fan

Fearless

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers

    but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain

    but for the heart to conquer it.

Tagore

Audience

Longing

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran

Dance

Open

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Lattice

Ask

So much depends on the stories we tell ourselves, and on the questions we ask, or fail to ask.

Mary Johnson

Drifted

Astonish

We can still astonish the gods in humanity

And be the stuff of future legends,

If we but dare to be real,

And have the courage to see
That this is the time to dream
The best dream of them all.

Ben Okri