Prayer: patch a few words together

Prayer: patch a few words together

It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another...
We have done it ourselves

We have done it ourselves

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...
Your Precious Life

Your Precious Life

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...
Tripping over joy

Tripping over joy

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...
Translate my prayer

Translate my prayer

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...