Do You Know How Many Beautiful Things Can Be Seen in a Single Second?
If you haven't already found Andrea Gibson and their magnificent heart-opening poetry, you've been missing something truly wonderful. Here is...
SAY I AM YOU – Rumi and Coleman Barks
With loving gratitude to Coleman Barks, whose translations of Rumi brought the spiritual light of Jalal al-Din Rumi to the...
February 2026 Readings
In the Point of Rest – Dag Hammarskjöld https://intrinsicheart.com/in-the-point-of-rest/ (for more wonderful excerpts from Dag Hammarskjöld’s book Markings, go to...
An Elastic Web of Light – Far Above the Earth, and Closer Than Close
Once I traveled far above the earth. This beloved planet we call home was covered with an elastic web of...
A Telegram from the Heart in Exile
The Word Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread”...
Our Real Condition – A Few Notes from Agnes Martin
Our Real Condition What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy...
To Paint the Light Itself – Claude Monet and May Sarton
From the great painter Claude Monet: "I tried to do the impossible - to paint the light itself." “Paint what...
January 2026 Readings
The Fall – Thomas Merton https://intrinsicheart.com/the-fall/ Out Beyond Ideas – Jalaluddin Rumi https://poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-motion/out-beyond-ideas-of-wrongdoing-and-rightdoing Atlanta Fugiens, Emblem 42 - Michael Maier...
Triumph of Being
Triumph of being... What have I to fear? I am a part of infinity, I am a part of the...
Spirit Horses and A Hundred Names of Love
Spirit Horses Every breath taken in by the man who loves, and the woman who loves, goes to fill the...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.