%% > [!summary] Related > ```dataview > LIST > FROM "" > WHERE contains(related, [[]]) OR contains(this.related, file.link) > ``` %% # Self-recrimination --- It is worth producing two poems in full, and that is it. A [[Wild Geese by Mary Oliver|validation]]: > [!QUOTE] Poem > > # *Wild Geese* > > You do not have to be good. > You do not 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. > Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. > Meanwhile the world goes on. > Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain > are moving across the landscapes, > over the prairies and the deep trees, > the mountains and the rivers. > Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, > are heading home again. > Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, > the world offers itself to your imagination, > calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – > over and over announcing your place > in the family of things. > > — [[Mary Oliver]] And an [[Break your heart no longer by Rumi|invocation]]: > [!QUOTE] Poem > > # *Break your heart no longer* > > Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart. > You stop feeding on the love which is the wellspring of your vitality. > But now the time has come, your time to live, > To celebrate, and to see the goodness that you are. > There is no evil, no wrong in you or in any other. > There is only the thought of it – and the thought has no substance. > If one comes, even in the name of the "truth", forgive the thought for its unknowing. > Do not fight it, just let it go. > Let go and breathe the goodness that you are. > > — [[Rumi]] > translated by [[Coleman Barks]] *Let go and breathe the goodness that you are.* --- %% # Reference ```dataview LIST FROM [[]] OR #self-recrimination AND !outgoing([[]]) AND -"Templates" WHERE file.name != this.file.name SORT file.name ASC ``` --- # Archive - %%