FOR THE TIME OF NECESSARY DECISION The mind of time is hard to read. We can never predict what it will bring, Nor even from all that is already gone Can we say what form it finally takes; For time gat...
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more i...
The restlessness in the human heart will never be finally stilled by any person, project, or place. The longing is eternal. This is what constantly qualifies and enlarges our circles of belonging. The...
We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be tak...
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is...
To be wholesome, we must remain truthful to our vulnerable complexity. In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and e...
The Celtic mind was not burdened by dualism. It did not separate what belongs together
Silence is the voice of the mystery. Silence let us dream again.
Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination.
Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night is, What did I really see this day?
Life is full of magnetic interims that call what is separate and different to become one, to enter into the art and presence of belonging.
Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into unfoldi...
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and unev...
We ask that streams of Easter light might flow into the intimacy and privacy of our hearts this morning, to heal us and encourage us and enable us to make again a new beginning.
The most subversive invitation you could ever accept is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed.
The Celtic understanding of friendship finds its inspiration and culmination in the sublime notion of the anam ċara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul; ċara is the word for friend. So anam ċara means s...
Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that h...
The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere