Intrinsic Heart

The Way Friend, I have lost the way. The way leads on. Is there another way? The way is one. I must retrace the track. It's lost and gone. Back, I must travel back! None goes there, none. Then I'll...

Les Vacances de Hegel - René Magritte This painting by René Magritte shows an umbrella holding up a glass filled with water.  Two opposite purposes: something supposed to keep water out, being used in order to carry a glass full...

From a season of sparrows grateful for seed, from a morning when watching their feeding is all the prayer I have in me. This is the tithing I offer— this moment, tiny as the millet seed one bird lifts in...

We’ve all heard the question, “Is the glass half empty or half full?”  And the statement that generally goes along with it:  See it as half full. Look at the pluses instead of the minuses.  Look at what’s right and...

Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless -- Each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth, Each of us here as divinely as any is here....

Looking at a small cup in the sink, its proportions are just right.  The pencil holder on the desk, with all its pens and markers, is somehow arranged just so.  The wrinkles in a few inches of sheet show the...