I heard this long ago: Mind your mind and steady yourself, for there is a stillness within you that has never been disturbed. May these words find a landing place within all of us now. Amen. The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night [...]
A deceptively simple poem; an amazing economy of words. Li-Young Lee's poem (a favorite of mine) expresses what’s hard to put my finger on. May his words console and instruct. Happy New Year! One Heart Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, Friend, open at [...]
As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain freefall, and float into Creator Spirit’s deep embrace, knowing no effort earns that all-surrounding grace. Denise Levertov from The Stream and the Sapphire Copyrighted material; for educational/therapeutic [...]
Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, we're lying. If we say No, we don't see it, That No will behead us And shut tight our window onto spirit. [...]