Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
- Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit

I love the fact the the word humus--the decayed vegetable matter that feeds the roots of plants--comes from the same root that gives rise to the word humility. It is blessed etymology. It helps me understand that the humiliating events of life, the events that leave "mud on my face" or that "make my name mud," may create the fertile soil in which something new can grow.
- Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak

The hunt isn’t over until both your heart and belly are full.
- Sun Bear

Try to be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
Where something might be planted,
A seed...a possibility.
- Rumi