We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph CampbellStichwörter: life change open-mind open-heart resilience
The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams
beyond the memories of a murdered generation,
cartographed in captivity by bare survivors
makes sacristans of us all.
The old ones go our bail, we oblate preachers of our tribes.
Be careful, they say, don't hock the beads of
kinship agonies; the moire-effect of unfamiliar hymns
upon our own, a change in pitch or shrillness of the voice
transforms the ways of song to words of poetry or prose
and makes distinctions
no one recognizes.
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans
on the edge of useless law; we pray
to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle
in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain
of incense burners. Migration makes
new citizens of Rome.
Stichwörter: freedom hope sword-sentiments resilience generation palimpsest zugunruhe
Solar Eclipse
Each morning
I wake invisible.
I make a needle
from a porcupine quill,
sew feet to legs,
lift spine onto my thighs.
I put on my rib and collarbone.
I pin an ear to my head,
hear the waxwing's yellow cry.
I open my mouth for purple berries,
stick on periwinkle eyes.
I almost know what it is to be seen.
My throat enlarges from anger.
I make a hand to hold my pain.
My heart a hole the size of the sun's eclipse.
I push through the dark circle's
tattered edge of light.
All day I struggle with one hair after another
until the moon moves from the face of the sun
and there is a strange light
as though from a kerosene lamp in a cabin.
I pun on a dress,
a shawl over my shoulders.
My threads knotted and scissors gleaming.
Now I know I am seen.
I have a shadow.
I extend my arms,
dance and chant in the sun's new light.
I put a hat and coat on my shadow,
another larger dress.
I put on more shawls and blouses and underskirts
until even the shadow has substance
Stichwörter: resilience dismemberment eclipse scorched-edges shamanism ymir
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: resilience flexibility
Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
Joan D. VingeStichwörter: safety survival resilience
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
Steve MaraboliStichwörter: life inspirational strength forgiveness resilience
No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.
Greg KincaidStichwörter: inspirational love practice persistence christmas endurance labor resilience
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
Elizabeth EdwardsStichwörter: reality acceptance change growth resilience
The “Warrior Ethos” emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a “guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
Dan SmeeStichwörter: motivational inspirational optimism liberty freedom patriotic self-help resilience warrior-ethos
My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.
Paula McLainStichwörter: life resilience toughness
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