They can be a great help—words. They can become the spirit’s hands and lift and caress you. –Meister Eckhart (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.110) “Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) is one of history’s great mystics . . . . He was a Catholic monk and […]
Archives for February 2012
Through Death’s Doorway
Pre-death dreams and visions can contain images of light. “. . . Light-as-divine-guide also emerged in the dream of John Sanford’s father, when a bright light shines through from a window behind the stopped mantelpiece clock, revealing a ‘brilliant path’ that draws him forward, away from this world” (Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death […]
Dragon’s Breath
Singing Image of Fire A hand moves, and the fire’s whirling takes different shapes: All things change when we do. The first word, “Ah,” blossoms into all others. Each of them is true. –Kukai (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, 36) Kukai (774-835) [was] . . . the founder […]
Delirious Joy
The great sea has set me in motion, set me adrift, moving me like a reed in a river. The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I’m carried away trembling with joy. –Uvavnuk (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, p.123) “Uvavnuk (mid-19th-early […]