“Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky.” Ojibway Saying Our crucial task when in pain or despair is not to let the sour feelings spill into everything, so that we stain our sense of the world. Yet we...
“The glory around you is born again each day.” The Muppets version of A Christmas Carol Creation is ongoing. The world begins anew each day. This is the miracle that makes not a sound, but which changes everything, if we can be quiet enough to feel it happen. When we...
When wax and wick work best, light and heat are all that’s left. Like a candle, our wick of spirit is encased in our humanity, and when our spirit is touched, we light up until all we know melts and changes shape for the burn of our experience. Repeatedly, our sweat...
“You didn’t come into this house so I might tear off a piece of your life. Perhaps when you leave, you’ll take something of mine: chestnuts, roses, or a surety of roots.” Pablo Neruda Perhaps the most stubborn thing that keeps us from knowing love is distrust....
“God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.” Hazrat Inayat Khan When young, it was my first fall from love. It broke me open the way lightning splits a tree. Then, years later, cancer broke me further. This time it broke me wider, the way a...
