“The real story comes from a love-source that cannot be understood with intellect, but known only as a person is known.” Coleman Barks Living in modern times has turned us into watchers, placing a sliver of distance between us and everything we meet. It is this...
Only love, with no thought of return, can soften the point of suffering. Water in its clear softness fills whatever hole it finds. It is not skeptical or disrupting. It does not say this gully is too deep or that this field is too open. Like water, the miracle of...
“There will never be an “us” if I play small.” Sharon Preiss In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the only difference between the lovers who find themselves enduring Hell and the lovers working their way through Paradise is that those in Hell have no individual centre, and so...
If you can’t see what you’re looking for, see what’s there. One of the most difficult things for us to accept is that beneath all of our dreams and disappointments, we live and breathe in abundance. It is hard when in pain to believe that all we ever need is before...
“Another name for God is surprise.” Brother David Steindl-Rast While rushing to complete your dearest plans that you tell no one, you can bump into another and groceries will fly, and while picking the ketchup, you might fall in love. Or in your second year of...
