Beyond The Sea
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement, get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Solar Reflection
In the name of daybreak and the eyelids of morning and the wayfaring moon and the night when it departs, I swear I will not dishonour my soul with hatred but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace. Diane...
Sacred Ground
I have learned to treat my garden as the sacred place it is and it continually nourishes me both in body and in spirit. Earth is sacred too, and whatever we do to her will come back to us many times over. If we treat her as merely a resource and a place to throw...
The Transmuter
The Divine Mystery is not a collection of problems. As the mystics keep chanting, there is a light so bright that it blinds us, that we are bound to experience it as darkness. To become intimate with it, we have to “unknow” worldly knowledge. We have to give up our tendency to treat it as we...
The Transcendence
Expand until you cannot feel a sense of the confines of your body. Become space. All passes through you. Now you can see, know and feel ALL of Spirit. Leave the realm of ordinary senses and become the All of it. This is where you will find peace. The more often you do this, the...
Antila
Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life. Breath in and let yourself soar to the ends of the universe; breath out and bring the cosmos back inside. Next, breathe up all the fecundity and vibrancy of the earth....
Calliope
Again and again I’ve taken quick glances and then for some reason I’ve got to sit before a picture, waiting….. and it’s opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put in water and something I thought wasn’t worth more than a casual glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning! ...
Gotama
Vocation to solitude: To deliver oneself up, to hand oneself over, to entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hills, or sea, or desert; to sit still while the sun comes up over the land and fills its silences with light. To pray and work in the morning and...
Secret Nature
Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices, of our own names, of our own fears. Let us name the harsh light and soft darkness that surround us… The world is big, and wide, and wild and wonderful and wicked,and our lives are murky, magnificent, malleable and full of meaning. Pádraig Ó Tuama...
Eternal Cycle
Breathe in serenity,Exhale peace and contentment …Then Silencewill gather all the worlds within itself,the waves will return to the oceanof eternity.And every word that has been spokenabout peace and lovewill be recognised like a bright lightby the spirit that has come to rest. Marcel Messing
Silence Blooms
The practice of paying attention is the rarest of gifts because it depends upon the harshest of disciplines. So uncommon is it for us to grasp the beauty and mystery of ordinary things that, when we finally do so, it often brings us to the verge of tears. Appalled by our own poverty, we awake...
Mystero Vivente
If we can stay in touch with ourselves, if we can find the connection to our deeper selves, we can find this deeper level of hope that truly should be called imagination… in the depths of each person there is a greater self and a core imagination that is truly the source of one’s life....