The Middle Way, Wherever We Are
We go through life trying to find harmony and balance, yet we often overlook the harmony and balance that are already here. We have ideas about where we stand and how we compare with others, and a sense of identity...
We go through life trying to find harmony and balance, yet we often overlook the harmony and balance that are already here. We have ideas about where we stand and how we compare with others, and a sense of identity...
The Lost Poem My father carried a poem with him all through his internment in Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines, carried it with him for four years, showed it to me one day folded and refolded, print blurred, coming...
I was reading an article about indigenous peoples and the importance of their role and message to the earth in this time, in this place, as protectors of the land—actually, I would say, protectors of land, sea and air. And...
Holy Spirit, giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, you are our true life: luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep. - Hildegard...
When I first learned “sublime” was a verb, the idea fascinated me. Yes, it’s a term in chemistry, but just to hear the sound of the word, it felt like something a person could actually learn to do. It has...
What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges,...
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