Intrinsic Heart

Poem of the One World This morning the beautiful white heron was floating along above the water and then into the sky of this the one world we all belong to where everything sooner or later is part of everything...

The Second Music Now I understand that there are two melodies playing, one below the other, one easier to hear, the other lower, steady, perhaps more faithful for being less heard yet always present. When all other things seem lively...

In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of...

IT MAKES SENSE TO ME NOW by Jimmy Santiago Baca That evening I drove down from San Francisco to Los Angeles and dropped in to visit Luis, who told me:         It’s your turn to carry the torch.  Years later...

DIAMONDS ARE BORNE   A diamond is borne up to the surface of Earth from unimaginable depths, bearing with it the whole astonishing history of its creation.   Your life is a chance to drink deep from the source well,...

   Water's Prayer Leafless aspens groom the iced breeze, while below a brook descends the mountain with its musical story, remembering the serenity of sky, and lightning's clear passion. Water knows what is far will be near. Water says choose that...