What’s in the Temple – Feb. 26, 2020
Pause with us here awhile. Put your ear to the wall of your heart. Listen for the whisper of knowing there. Love will touch you if you are very still. … If you had a temple in the secret spaces of your heart, what would you worship there? What would you bring to sacrifice? What […]
The Guest – Feb. 25, 2020
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me; You know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all struggling; none of us has gone far. Let your arrogance go and look around inside. The blue sky opens out further and farther, The daily sense of failure goes away. The damage I have […]
Stay Awhile – Feb. 24, 2020
Around me the trees stir in their leavesand call out, “Stay awhile.”The light flows from their branches. And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,“and you, too, have comeinto the world to do this, to go easy, to be filledwith light, and to shine.” –Mary Oliver, excerpt from “When I Am Among the Trees” Quotations […]
Let Go of Everything – Feb. 18, 2020
I must let go.For so long I have held to the habit of holding on. Even my musclesAre tense; deeply fearful are theyOf relaxing lest they fall away from their place.I cling clutchingly to my friendsLest I lose them.I live under the shadow of being supplanted by another.I cling to my money, not so much […]
