The Ordinary Acts We Practice Every Day

It's Important To Be Heroic, Ambitious, Productive, Efficient, Creative, And Progressive, But These Qualities Don't Necessarily Nurture Soul. The Soul Has Different Concerns, Of Equal Value: Downtime For Reflection, Conversation, And Reverie; Beauty That Is Captivating And Pleasuring; Relatedness To The Environs And To People; And Any Animal’s Rhythm Of Rest And Activity.

Here Bring Your Wounded Hearts, Here Tell Your Anguish; Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Heal.

Good Demeter Mothering Keeps A Child In The Heat And Passion Of Life Which Immortalize And Establish Soulfulness. Mothering Involves Not Only Physical Survival And Achievement—demeter's Grain And Fruit—it Is Also Concerned With Guiding A Child To His Or Her Unknown Depths And The Mystery Of Fate.

Like Ships That Have Gone Down At Sea, When Heaven Was All Tranquillity.

And The Heart That Is Soonest Awake To The Flowers Is Always The First To Be Touch'd By The Thorns.