In association with , books, music, and videos recommended by Spirituality Stories . I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people awaken us to understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
Don't know who the author is. I like it. A man found a cocoon of an emperor moth. He took it home so that he could watch the moth come out of the cocoon. On that day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the moth for several hours as the moth struggled to force the body through that little hole.