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“At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the worlds rivers, betwe...”
“Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”
“I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the...”
“Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...”
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth- our larger body- to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours (the tensions and terrors of our individual da...”
“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
“How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.”
“Poetry is breathing words that gives a reader pause.”
“How to be a Poet (to remind myself)Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skillmore of each than you haveinspiration work, growing older, ...”
“I thought about having a proper room,breathing life into it, and nobody minding.”
“I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.”
“Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.”
“Do You think it matters if they're tiny or deep? he asked. Well, if they're not tiny breaths and they're not deep breaths, then they're just ... breaths. Then you're just breathing for the sake of ...”
“We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.”
“and I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons...”
“Breathing is a lot like creativity. Like an inhale, you receive an inspiration, you let it run through the unique magnificence of who you are, and then you release it into the world, letting it go,...”
“Taking a deep breath, words floating through my head.”
“With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity.”
“The savage rushing of the river seemed to be inside her head, inside her body. Even when the oarswomen, their guides, were speaking to her, she had the impression she couldn't quite hear them becau...”
“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.”
