What I mean is ...

What I mean is,
we stood on the bank of the river
under the trees,
the pair of us,
and we promised the nothing
that was there,
the nothing that made us,
the nothing that was listening,
that we truly desired to go
beyond ourselves.

- Ali Smith -
Girl Meets Boy, p.159

It is said ...

It IS said that all that
you are seeking
is also seeking YOU,
that if you LIE still,
sit STILL,
it will find you.
It has been waiting for you
a long time.
Once it is here don't move away.
REST.
See what happens next.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
Women who run with the wolves (p.148)

I Carry Your Heart

I carry your heart with me
(I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it
(Anywhere I go you go;
And whatever is done by me is your doing)
I fear no fate
(For you are my fate)
I want no world
(For beautiful, you are my world, my true)
And you are whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you.
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(Here is the root of the root
And the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called Life;
Which grows higher than Soul can hope
Or mind can hide)
And this is the wonder that's keeping
The stars apart
I carry your heart
(I carry it in my heart).

- e.e.cummings -