Find All the Barriers – Mar. 19, 2019
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi
Too Full – Mar. 18, 2019
The quotes this week are from the 13th century mystic poet Jalal al-Din Rumi. The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, (Harper One, 2004). Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about. -Rumi
Too Little – Mar. 15, 2019
“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.” -Thomas Merton
Look Them in the Face – Mar. 14, 2019
“In Dorothy L. Sayer’s novel Gaudy Night one of the characters recalls the extempore prayer of a well-meaning but incoherent curate, heard once and never forgotten, “Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.” Taking our hearts and looking them in the face is the […]