People say that what we’re seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
I disagree. It is not either/or. It is and/both.
« πλ | 5 Jul 2006 »
Breath is giving and receiving, breathing out and in. We can’t hold our breath, we cannot clutch the life force. We must surrender to the rhythm and the gift. That is life.
« πλ | 27 Nov 2006 »
Every blade of grass has an angel bending over it, saying, “Grow! Grow!”
« πλ | 5 Nov 2006 »
If He is not risen, then our faith is in vain. If our faith is in vain, then our Homesickness is only monologue. If our Homesickness is only monologue, then my headphones have lied. Then all those evening walks downtown have been mere cardiovascular exercise. Then the late October air is not invigorating but cold. Then Autumn isn’t what I thought. Then life is meaningless.
« πλ | 13 Jun 2006 »
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, but I give myself to it.
« πλ | 27 Jul 2006 »
To me this would be the best way to live—to situate yourself within your life in such a way as to feel that your own life was unfolding with the pattern of all of life. I suppose this might seem megalomaniacal, but I see it as quite humble. My life isn’t mine, it is just life living itself through me. I think, if you lived your life like that, then a lot of what bothers you wouldn’t bother you any more, and a lot of things that don’t bother you now would seem very important, very personal..
« πλ | 7 Jul 2006 »
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
« πλ | 5 Jun 2006 »
The life which is truly real is not one that consists in experiencing sensations, but in activity, I mean activity in both thought and deed.
« πλ | 21 Sep 2006 »
One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can’t even focus our eyes.
« πλ | 3 Jul 2006 »
Life is this simple. We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the Divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or fable. It is true.
« πλ | 21 Jun 2006 »
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
« πλ | 22 Jul 2006 »
May God’s love,
peace, and energy
touch you in faith.
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