“And because after all this time you have lived for so long without faith in your own joys and your own grief,

you live daily, saying ‘love ‘as if it were still far away. Put down your heavy burden and rest from the hard, every day labor of

not hurting, or not feeling, or not hearing, or not saying or seeing. Stop keeping the tears at bay, give it all up, just come home.”

–David Whyte, from INTIMATE INVITATION