Posts tagged ‘sunset’
Mystery
Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.
- Mahmûd Shabistarî,
Can we even imagine all that is contained in a drop of water?
Let Us Center Our Lives
Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Are You Awake?
Those who are awake live in a constant state of amazement.
-Jack Kornfield
What can be more amazing than sunset over the City?!
What Kind of Life Shall I Lead?
Lead a listening life. Order your outward life so that nothing drowns out the listening.
- Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion
More Wisdom of Heschel
The meaning of awe is to realize that life takes place under wide horizons, horizons that range beyond the span of an individual life or even the life of a nation, a generation, or an era.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Wisdom of Heschel
Finding God
In the early evening we see the stars begin to appear as the sun disappears over the horizon. The light of day gives way to the darkness of night. A stillness, a healing quiet comes over the landscape. It’s a moment when some other world makes itself known, a numinous presence beyond human understanding. We experience the vast realms of space overwhelming the limitations of our human minds. As the sky turns golden and the clouds reflect the blazing colors of evening, we participate for a moment in the forgiveness, the peace, the intimacy of things with each other.
- Thomas Berry, The Great Community of Earth
. . . the sky turns golden and the clouds reflect the blazing colors of evening . . .
Where Is Your Hope?
In today’s Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 31 – we read:
Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.
How great is the goodness, O LORD,
which you have in store for those who fear you,
And which, toward those who take refuge in you,
you show in the sight of the children of men.Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.
The Beautiful San Francisco Bay
Today is the last day of the Church Year, since tomorrow is the First Sunday of Advent. Our Psalm today is Psalm 95, and we read:
For the Lord is a great God,
and a great ruler above all gods;
In God’s hands are the depths of the earth,
and the tops of the mountains.
The sea belongs to God, the Creator
and the dry land, which God’s hands have formed.
More on Prayer
Appreciating the sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains
What is real prayer?
Praise to God.
And the meaning of prayer?
Appreciating; thus opening the heart
more and more to the Divine beauty
on sees in manifestation.-Pir_O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
Bowl of Saki
What is Prayer?
According to Richard Rohr,
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, praising God until we ourselves are a constant act of praise.
- From Radical Grace: Daily Meditations
In other words, we become what we do.
How, then, shall we live?
