“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try to be or do anything whatever.”   ~ May Sarton

 

“No matter what comes along, we’re always standing at the center of the world in the middle of sacred space, and everything that comes into that circle and exists with us there has come to teach us what we need to know.”   ~Pema Chödrön

 

“This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”    ~Mary Oliver

 

“I’ll tell you right now, the doors to the world of the Wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door; if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”   ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

“Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of our existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.”   ~Br. David Steindl-Rast

 

“Neuroscience…tells us that fear, negativity, and hatred stick like Velcro to the nerves, while positivity, gratitude, and appreciation slide away like Teflon from those same nerves— until we savor them, or choose them, for a minimum of a conscious fifteen seconds. Only then do they imprint. Please reflect on this. The positive, loving, and non-argumentative savoring of the moment is called contemplation.”   ~Richard Rohr

 

“What to believe in, exactly, may never turn out to be half as important as the daring act of belief. A willingness to participate in sunlight, and the color red. An agreement to enter into a conspiracy with life… in order to come away changed.”   ~Barbara Kingsolver

 

“In the point of rest at the center of our being we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses.”   ~Dag Hammarskjöld

 

All photographs by Fabrice Poussin.