Long Night Quote by Mary Oliver

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

— Mary Oliver

“Evening prayer I spend my life sitting, like an angel in a barber's chair, Holding a beer mug with deep-cut designs, My neck and…

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“ My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest… My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My…

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“Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters, and prayed to them, and washed…

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“The rain is coming down here, but ever so slightly . . . Picture if you will from the heavens above, the tears of…

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