“Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind singing in your veins.” John Welwood When starting out, I wanted so badly to become a poet that I held it in view like some hill I needed to climb to see from. But getting to the top,...
“I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.” Parker J. Palmer No feeling takes over our lives more suddenly or more completely than fear. It seems to come up from nowhere and, in a blink or...
Live, I say, live your worries through and your spirit will wake from its fever, and you will want others like soup. During my struggle with cancer, the endless medical gauntlet of going through procedures and tests and then waiting for the results gave me a lot of...
Though the wind enlivens the tree, the tree is not the wind. And though life enlivens us, we are not the Source. Everywhere we are given examples of how the life-giving elements move through us and bring us to life. Consider how fish makeup the sea, in fact depend on...
“I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.” Anna Akhmatova The longer I live, the harder it is to discern between the stronger emotions. They all spill into each other where they begin. The longer I go, though,...
