It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.
Mary OliverAnd now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real
Mary OliverI think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
Mary OliverThere are things you canโt reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.
Mary Oliver