Intrinsic Heart

I Traveled I traveled to every city There was none like the city of Love. The city of Love? I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t know what I was missing. Young and callow, I ran from one city...

So many ways to pray, so many prayers that are not formed as prayers, but are prayers nonetheless.  A few poems and fragments here... - Prayer - Another Way of Being, Another Way of Knowing      by Michael Leunig...

THIS MOMENT, THIS LOVE This moment this love comes to rest in me, many beings in one being. In one wheat grain a thousand sheaf stacks. Inside the needle's eye, a turning night of stars. Listen, if you can stand...

Getting Out Sometimes there is inside me a space so great my body takes itself outside— as if the house is too restricting, as if this inner space must be met by something vast as field, boundless as sky, immeasurable...

You, Darkness by Rainer Maria Rilke You darkness from which I come, I love you more than all the fires that fence out the world, for the fire makes a circle for everyone so that no one sees you anymore....

Last Night As I Was Sleeping / Anoche Cuando Dormía by Antonio Machado Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—blessed illusion!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are...