That Skill A thorn has entered your foot. That is why you weep at times at night. There are some in this world who can pull it out. The skill that takes they have learned from Him. –St. Catherine of Siena (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West […]
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 […]
The Spirit’s Hands
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 […]
Follow Your Calling
if I do not fulfill my heart’s vocation, I suffer. –St. Thomas Aquinas (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.144) Love and More This quote is the third stanza of the poem Otherwise the Darkness by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). His soul’s purpose, stated in […]