We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become im...
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past:For everything under the sun there is a time.This is the season of your awkward harvesting,When the pain takes you where you would rather not go,...
Where you belong should always be worthy of your dignity. You should belong first in your own interiority. If you belong there, and if you are in rhythm with yourself and connected to that deep, uniqu...
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our...
Take time to see the quiet miracles thatseek no attention
I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things.
Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy.
And when the work of grieving is done, The wound of loss will heal And you will have learned To wean your eyes From that gap in the air And be able to enter the hearth In your soul where your loved on...
Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that a...
We do not need to go out to find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
The prayer intends that the new child will never become trapped, caught, or entangled in false inner networks of negativity, resentment, or destruction toward itself. The blessings also intend that th...
So at the end of this day, we give thanksFor being betrothed to the unknown.
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.
When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by be...
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be bea...
May the light of your soul guide you; May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart; May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul; May the sa...
The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.