Still, what I want in my life

is to be willing

to be dazzled —

to cast aside the weight of facts

 

and maybe even

to float a little

above this difficult world.

I want to believe I am looking

 

into the white fire of a great mystery.

I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing —

that the light is everything — that it is more than the sum

of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.

 

Mary Oliver. From “The Ponds.”

 

You belong to the glorious – you are of divine radiance. What have you seen of your own beauty? …One dawn, like the sun, you will rise up from within yourself. It is a shame to be shrouded this way like the moon under a cloud.

 

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. “Rise Up.”