March 2025 Readings

The Journey – David Whyte
https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/08/13/the-journey-by-david-whyte/

The Song of Songs, Verses 7:12-14 – The Shulammite (translated by Ariel and Chana Bloch)
(I could not find the Ariel & Chana Bloch translation quoted online.  It is available online in many other translations.  The reading is from the full Song of Songs translation by Ariel and Chana Bloch; and these verses are quoted on p. 27 of Women in Praise of the Sacred.)

Quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from Maxims and Reflections:  “It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to everyone.”

Day – William Blake
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8437901-Day-by-William-Blake

The Other Mexico (excerpt) – Octavio Paz

The land is not the place we thought it was,
nor the sky the same.
We have been accustomed to knowing nothing
and this is why we’ve never learned to listen
to the whisper of the earth
or to the music of the wind.

All My Body Calls – David Whyte
https://intrinsicheart.com/all-my-body-calls/

Quote from Rumi:  “You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the ocean in a drop.”

Pied Beauty – Gerard Manley Hopkins
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty

One Sea – Parvaneh Farhangpour
(This poem is not available online.)

Epiphany – Thomas Merton
https://intrinsicheart.com/epiphany/