Our birth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come...

~William Wordsworth

Help us

"Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers."

- May Sarton

It is your birthright

"It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract.
It will guide you to find your divine destiny."

~ Caroline Myss

It is said

It is said, and it is true, that just before we were born a cavern angel puts his finger to our lips and says, "Hush, don't tell what you know." This is why we are born with a cleft on our upper lips and remembering nothing of where we came from.

~Roderick MacLeish

Between earth

Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.

~Linda Hogan

Every situation

Every situation represents a choice: do we prefer to stay with ego-based patterns of thought and behavior, or do we choose to play life in a higher, more loving way? Will we tread the path of limitation and fear, though that path has grown painful and boring and old, or do we choose to give birth to a higher mode of expression.

~Marianne Williamson

We choose

We choose our lives, we make them, we cocreate them, we give birth to them by the ‘inward’ choices we make.

~Matthew Fox

It was a great mistake

It was a great mistake my being born a man. I would have been much more successful as a sea-gull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want, is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death.

- Edmund, from Eugene O'Neill Play,
"Long Day's Journey Into Night."

One must still

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

A man

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

~George Gurdjieff

Every man

Every man is an impossibility until he is born, every thing is impossible until we see it a success.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life's dirty

Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

~Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994