Keep Walking – June 29, 2021
Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to.Don’t try to see through the distances.That’s not for human beings. Move within,but don’t move the way fear makes you move. -Jelaluddin Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, p. 278
Walking with Him – May 11, 2021
“Aslan! Dear Aslan!” said Lucy, “what is wrong? Can’t you tell us?”“Are you ill, dear Aslan?” asked Susan.“No,” said Aslan. “I am sad and lonely. Lay your hands on my mane so that I can feel you are there and let us walk like that.”And so the girls did what they would never have dared […]
Mysticism Involves Movement – Dec. 1, 2020
“In my experience, mysticism has always involved movement. That’s not like the unique whirling dervishes’ mystical prayers practiced for seven hundred years by the Sufi branch of Islam, although that is a fascinating study. Rather, simply walking, mindful of God’s presence, helps walk me away from inherited forms of spiritual practice.” –Wes Granberg-Michaelson, Without Oars, […]
Waiting Is a Window – July 10, 2020
“Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes… It is the experience of recovering balance when catapulted from one’s place. It is the quiet forming of a pattern of recollection in which there is called into focus the fragmentary values from myriad encounters of many kinds in a lifetime of living. It is to watch […]
