Don’t know how else to say it
Don’t want to see my parents go
One generation’s length away
From fighting life out on my own
. . .
So scared of getting older
I’m only good at being young
John Mayer
Category: Sacred Journey
Trusting Uncertainty
So they followed their wandering paths, and the darkness served as their guide, and their doubts reassured them.
Meister Eckhart
Into the Unknown
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Uncertain Roads
The best roads of all
Are the ones that aren’t certain
One of those is where you’ll find me
‘Till they drop the big curtain
Bruce Cockburn
The Cost of Conformity
People run in packs because they don’t feel safe alone.
I run alone because I don’t feel safe in packs.
Unknown (possibly Muhammad Ali)
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring,
what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.
In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.
And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.
Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows