Direct Experience – Dec. 13, 2018
“Perhaps it is because in handcraft one works more immediately with material and handling, that one gets to know one’s material in something like an intuitive way. One may develop a capacity for experiencing other phenomena in this way: in immediacy, listening to something that is not audible but that nevertheless one hears, responding to […]
To Know the Total Shape – Dec. 12, 2018
“Moral capacity may be thought of as the ability to be guided in one’s behavior by the standards of quality to which one gives inner allegiance. Centering in the moral sphere enables one to extend one’s commitment to quality from one point through all other points: to throw, as it were, a total shape.” -M.C. […]
Holding Wholeness – Dec. 11, 2018
“We are transformed, not by adopting attitudes toward ourselves but by bringing into center all the elements of our sensations and our thinking and our emotions and our will: all the realities of our bodies and our souls. All the dark void in us of our undiscovered selves, all the small light of our discovered […]
Redemption – Dec. 10, 2018
Inspirational quotes for this second week of Advent come from Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person by Mary Caroline Richards (Wesleyan University Press, 1962). A second edition, with a new introduction, was published in 1989. “It is in our bodies that redemption takes place… I learn through my hands and my eyes and my […]