Intrinsic Heart

BLESSING THE BODY This blessing takes one look at you and all it can say is holy. Holy hands. Holy face. Holy feet. Holy everything in between. Holy even in pain. Holy even when weary. In brokenness, holy. In shame,...

On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets into you, may a flock...

REUNION This is how it is: one part of you journeys forth while the other stays at home to wait and keep things going. And the years pass with you (the waiter) going about your business while you wonder how...

Just This! Just This! First days of spring - the sky is bright blue, the sun huge and warm. Everything's turning green. Carrying my monk's bowl, I walk to the village to beg for my daily meal. The children spot...

So many times something happens seemingly by accident – you apply for one job, but they hire you for something else way better. You go down the wrong street, and suddenly there’s a view you’ve never seen before, and somehow...

Some say you're lucky If nothing shatters it. But then you wouldn't Understand poems or songs. You'd never know Beauty comes from loss. It's deep inside every person: A tear tinier Than a pearl or thorn. It's one of the...