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Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Follow the White Bull

Follow the White Bull

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you). Each Moment A White Bull Steps Shining Into The World If the gods bring to you a strange and frightening creature, as if it was one you had chosen.   Spare no expense, pay what is asked, when a gift arrives from the sea. […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Spiritual Journey Tagged: Act of Valor, Jane Hirshfield, poetry, Roger Housden, Spiritual Journey, Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again & Again, white bull

January 18, 2013

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

The Wind Sends her Love

Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma and endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, though, they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. –Ikkyu (Zen Inspirations by Miriam Levering, p.40) Christian Parallels Ikkyu (1394-1481) was a Japanese Zen master and poet. His words […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Spiritual Journey Tagged: Ikkyu, Miam Levering, poetry, Spiritual Journey

December 20, 2012

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

The Path through Hell

“The road of experiential knowledge that Jung spent most of his life leading people along is clearly not a road that is readily walked. As Jung relates, for many ‘the steep path of self-development is . . . as mournful and gloomy as the path to hell’” (C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity by […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Spiritual Journey Tagged: C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity, Four Quartets, Jung, path through hell, poetry, Robert Aziz, Spiritual Journey, T. S. Eliot

December 13, 2012

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

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, […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Spiritual Journey, Writing Tagged: Ezra Bayda, pain, poetry, The Mindful Writer, writing

November 8, 2012
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