Today’s Oracle
My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:
78) Don’t ask a naked man for the shirt off his back.
You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. It will be a response to your question. Play with it.
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The Workaholic Meets Mary Oliver’s Poem, The Summer’s Day
When I work with clients, I often remind them of poems – The Summer Day by Mary Oliver heals many wounds. The recovering workaholic in me has an endless to do list, endlessly proving my worth in the world to my father and to God. The poem frees me to attend to what truly resonates with my soul.
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
Tell me what else I should have done… My inner voice has “the should” list. I bet you have one too.
Tell me what else I should have done… Really. Pay attention to what matters. She gives me deep permission to attend.
I use this Zen affirmation below more and more these days…
Death is certain.
Time of death is uncertain.
How then to live your life.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
May you walk in beauty,
William
P.S. One of my favorite books, Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey echoes these ideas. Go read the description and consider getting it.
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