“Intuition cannot be produced. It has to be allowed to happen. But that is just what the rational mind cannot endure. It wants to control everything. It is not prepared to be silent, to be still, to allow things to happen . . . . [Active passivity] is what the Chinese call wu wei, action […]
Archives for April 2012
Touch the Sun
A Walk My eyes already touch the sunny hill, going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance – and changes us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we […]
Ultimate Blog Party 2012!
Hi! Welcome to Spring Snow Publications! I’m Deb Chitwood. Along with my husband, Dr. Terry Chitwood, I co-founded Spring Snow Publications. We’ve been blogging here a bit over a year, and this is the first year we’ve participated from Spring Snow Publications in the Ultimate Blog Party. I’m a Montessori educator and author. I blog […]
Drinking Light
Like Roots Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light. –St. Francis of Assisi (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.40) St. Francis […]