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 […]
Healing
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, […]
The Taoist Writer: Creating Soul
You ask me why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom. The water flows. –Li Po (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, […]
Why Write?
“WHY WRITE? THERE ARE, AFTER ALL, other ways to access internal wisdom. You can pray. You can meditate. You can work with a mental-health counselor or hypnotist. You can participate in religious rituals, visit a spiritual director, or see a shaman . . . . There are many routes into inner consciousness, so why take […]
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