Posts from the ‘Finding God’ Category
Seeing through the Beloved’s Eyes
Borrow the Beloved’s eyes. Look through them and you’ll see the Beloved’s face everywhere. No tiredness, no jaded boredom…things you have hated will become helpers.– Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, We Are Three
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We Learn of God through Creation
If the soul could have known God without the world, the world would never have been created.
– Meister Eckhart
What a wonderful way to learn of God!
Knowing God
If the soul could have known God without the world, the world would never have been created.
– Meister Eckhart
And what a delightful world with the gold finch in it!
Let Yourself Be Drawn
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
– Jalaluddin Rumi, Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks
Mystery in a Traffic Light
Life’s wonder and mystery can be discovered as easily at a traffic light as on a mountaintop.
• Ezra Bayda in Saying Yes to Life
Traffic light in Vatican City by statue of St. Catherine of Siena
