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The Leaf’s Song

 

What Can I Say (by Mary Oliver)

What can I say that I have not said before?
So I’ll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story
and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until all ends.

Take your busy heart to the art museum and the
chamber of commerce
but take it also to the forest.
The song you heard singing in the leaf when you
were a child
is singing still.
I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four,
and the leaf is singing still.

-Mary Oliver

Awareness

“Earth’s crammed with heaven…

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Leaf with Two Suns

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered,

it is something inside to be realized.”

Osho

Leaf, Close Up, On Water2

“Thought can organize the world so well that you are no

longer able to see it.”

-Anthony de Mello