Suzanne – Sept. 19, 2022
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the waterAnd he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden towerAnd when he knew for certain only drowning men could see himHe said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free themBut he himself was broken, long before the sky would […]
Hiding – Sept. 9, 2022
“To my mind, one of the great necessary inner disciplines is the ability to stay close to what is still hidden and unannounced in us, the interior ‘deep but dazzling darkness’ out of which any new and worthwhile future will be announced.” –David Whyte, Essentials, p. 102
Dining with Demons
It has always seemed to me that what the Bible calls demon possession* looks a lot like mental illness. Because it runs deeply in my family, I have learned to live with cyclical depression, which periodically disorders my thinking like an inner demon that wants to drive me to ruin. After so many years, I […]
Independence – Mar. 31, 2022
“A mind that is single and sincere is not interested in being good, in conducting relations with other people so as to live up to a rule. Nor, on the other hand, is it interested in being free, in acting perversely just to prove its independence.” ―Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity, p. 132