by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
Go in search of your people, Love them; Learn from them; Plan with them; Serve them; Begin with what they have; Build on what they know. But of the best leaders, When their task is accomplished, The people will all remark: ‘We have done it ourselves’. Lao Tsu...
by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper…? I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been...
by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint? The saint knows that the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God And that the Beloved Has just a Fantastic Move That the saint is now continually Tripping...
by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
Translate our prayers He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable name, murmuring “Thou” And dream of Pheidian fancies and embrace in heart Symbols (I know) which cannot be the thing though art. Thus always, taken at their word, all prayers...
by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
I would have knelt long, wresting with you, wearing you down. Hear my prayer, Lord, hear my prayer. As though you were deaf, myriads of mortals have kept up their shrill cry, explaining your silence by their infirmness. It begins to appear this is not what prayer is...