People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Even I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away
like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss,
because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree’s way of being.
​Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

~ May Sarton

Growth does not come from putting on any spiritual clothing. Growth comes from removing,
and removing, ceasing, undoing, and letting ourselves drop down or even fall into the
core of our living being.

~ Linda Hogan, Chicksaw poet; quoted in “Listening to the Land”

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

​~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

To connect with the great river we all need a path,
but when you get down there, there's only one river.
~ Matthew Fox​