Meditation is practicing gentleness with the body, gentleness with the mind. I start the day gentle with my body, gentle with the mind. It is a practice of letting go. There are so many things that I carry in my body, in my mind. Unnamed burdens that keep my stomach on edge. It’s muscles angry and twisted into a fist. Every slow and purposeless breath a letting go. Setting the weight down. Casting the irons off. So, that I may be free.
For all that has been, thank you.
For all that is to come, yes.
Dag Hammarskjöld : Markings
A night drive to Ein Yahav in the Arava Desert,
a drive in the rain. Yes, in the rain.
There I met people who grow date palms,
there I saw tamarisk trees and risk trees,
there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire.
And I said to myself: That’s true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field.
Yehuda Amichai : Ein Yahav
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Proverbs 22:29
snowflakes on eyelashes
boots crunch through icy snow
spoon cracks through creme brulee
phyllis, do you know how to drive a tractor?
Why do I write? Because I find life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee Williams
..the only test that Christianity has known for determining the authenticity of a mystic and her or his message has been that of personal transformation, both on the mystic’s part and—especially—on the part of those whom the mystic has affected.
Bernard McGinn
