Day 13
Everyone needs a place to retreat; a spot where the world grows quiet enough for the soul to speak. -Angie Weiland-Crosby

Day 14
I close my eyes and listen to the voices of  the rain. -Robin Wall Kimmerer

Day 15
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. -Agnes de Mille

Day 16
The eyes of my eyes are opened. -E.E. Cummings

Day 17
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. -Radhanath Swami

Day 18
Shut your eyes and see. -James Joyce

Day 19
The wind. A gentle reminder that what cannot be seen may still be felt. -Liz Fair

Day 20
Sleeping in the Forest
by Mary Oliver

I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

Day 21
Everything in the universe had a rhythm, everything dances. -Maya Angelou

Day 22
In our bones we need the natural curves of hills…the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. -Richard Louv

Day 23
A Blessing For Presence
by John O’Donohue

May you awaken to the mystery of being here
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift
and find the courage to follow its path.
May you know that the wisdom you are seeking is already within you
ready to emerge in light when you need it.
May you find calm in the midst of storms, clarity in the midst of chaos,
and may your spirit never lose sight of the beauty and wonder of life.

Day 24
Don’t count the days. Make the days count. -Muhammad Ali

Day 25
Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. -Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Day 26
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. -Maya Angelou

Day 27
Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day 28
When I Am Among The Trees
by Mary Oliver

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

Day 29
I Am Silence
by Richard Wagamese

I am my silence. I am not the busyness 
of my thoughts or the daily rhythm of my actions.
I am not the stuff that constitutes my world.
I am my silence. I am the consciousness 
that perceives all these things.
When I go to my consciousness, 
to that great pool of silence
that observes the intricacies of my life,
I am aware that I am me. 
I take a little time each day 
to sit in silence so that I 
can move outward in balance 
into the great clamour of living.

Day 30
Life is all about balance. 
You don’t always need to
be getting stuff done.
Sometimes it’s perfectly okay,
and absolutely necessary, to
shut down, kick back,
and do nothing.

-Lori Deschene

Day 31
It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol. -Brene Brown
