Widening the Door
Does the heart have a narrow door? Will it allow in just one more of every beast and flower and bird and every song it…
Category: Quotes
Gather Us In
Gather us in, the lost and the lonely, the broken and breaking, the tired and the aching who long for the nourishment found at your…
The Cure for Heartbreak
I have found the cure for heartbreak. It was hidden in a small nook behind my left ear.Stuck for too long tangled in a strand of…
The Fundamental Illusion
The notion that God is absent is the fundamental illusion of the human condition. – Thomas Keating, as cited by Cynthia Bourgeault in The Heart of…
The Search
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it…
Revelation of the Divine
The Christ Mystery refuses to be vague or abstract; it must be concrete and specific. When we stay with our daily experiences and apparitions, we…
Not the Help That Creation Expected
. . . Might not Incarnation be his response not to the incidental irregularity of sin but to the unhelpable presence of badness in creation? …
Once You Are Real
It doesn’t happen all at once . . . You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who…
What is Truth?
What is truth? You can see where there is truth and where there isn’t, but I seem to have lost my sight. I see nothing. You boldly…
Childhood
I cannot reach it; and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that chronicle alive, Those white designs which children drive,…