Monday Mantra 298

July 22, 2019

"You do not have to be Good. You don’t have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." - Mary Oliver

Love what and whom you love! Real love, genuine, authentic is felt in the "soft animal of our body," whose wisdom informs our hesitant minds and tortured souls. If it’s true you know it; true love is unselfish. You think of that lover, baby, lost and injured animal; that classroom of children; old, sick people or immigrants whose tears and joy you share before you think of yourself. Love does that for us, makes our "soft animal" human.