The urge to escape seems almost automatic, even with small things. A moment’s discomfort, and attention wants distraction, wants to get away and make things other than how they are. Yet if we’re willing to stop for only a moment...
When he was 43 years old, the great spiritual teacher Thomas Merton had a profound mystical experience. What follows is an excerpt from his description of that experience, which took place on an ordinary day, while running errands in downtown...
What does it mean to be nobody? One kind of ‘nobody’ identifies as someone who feels less than, unimportant. Another kind self-identifies as an outsider. And another equates being nobody with being ordinary, average. Yet almost everyone wants to be...
To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you. And know there is more That you can’t see, can’t hear; Can’t know except in moments Steadily growing,...
Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star's stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her in a bar once in Iowa City. Remember the sun's birth at dawn, that is the...
What is the subject of this photo? Look carefully, the actual subject is more than it seems. At first glance, it appears as though the three young women are the subject. But they have beautiful, loving companions—the crowd of tulips...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.
