What I Have Learned So Far : Poem In Your Post

 

Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I
not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside,
looking into the shining world? Because, properly

attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion.

Can one be passionate about the just, the

ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit

to no labor in its cause? I don't think so.

All summations have a beginning, all effect has a

story, all kindness begins with the sown seed.
Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of
light is the crossroads of— indolence, or action.

Be ignited, or be gone.

— Mary Oliver

    New and Selected Poems, Volume 2

    Beacon Press, Boston, 1992 (Web)

MFB,

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p.s.  April is Poetry Month in the United States.  Why not revisit wisdom-stones or alight upon fresh-budding posies at Poets.org?  You're bound to find solace and surrender there.