“From the beginning I had a sense of destiny, as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled. This gave me an inner security. . . . Nobody could rob me of the conviction that it was enjoined upon me to do what God wanted and not what I […]
The Stony Path
Your difficulties are not obstacles on the path, they are the path. –Ezra Bayda In addition to quoting Bayda, Dinty Moore states, “With that logic, even the bad days are useful, even the obstacles are part of the path. Maybe I’m not writing anything worthy of preservation today, but if I’m at my desk, writing, […]
Playful Words
I decided to play with words by writing some haiku-like poems: a word swinging a smile a raven lands on the white page dancing words into story the silken wingtip of the butterfly touches the blank page creating poetry words evaporate becoming nothing words appear out of nothing blink and […]
Death as Teacher
Life is a journey. Death is a return to the earth. The universe is like an inn. The passing years are like dust. –Buddhist Poem This poem is used to describe the Buddhist concept of impermanence (The World’s Religions by Huston Smith, pp. 116-117). Of course, we are constantly changing . . . our bodies, […]
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