Learning to listen with the heart moves us from the role of observers and enables us to become participants with the Creator in a world full of grace and possibility.
Plunge into matter. Plunge into God. By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and molds us. We imagine it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact, we live steeped in its burning layers.
I took this photo several years ago, and always hoped I would have an opportunity to use it! No quotes, no references, no reflections are necessary. It says it all. And the sign can be found at Spirit Rock, a Buddhist retreat center in Woodacre, California.
And I won’t be able to participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge next week because I leave for Ireland on Monday.
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You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don’t get tired of looking for me! I know You won’t. For You have found me. All I have to do is stay found.
Prayer is not doing, but being. It is not words but the beyond-words experience of coming into the presence of something much greater than oneself. It is an invitation to recognize holiness, and to utter simple words–“Holy, Holy, Holy”–in response. Attentiveness is all; I sometimes think of prayer as a certain quality of attention that comes upon me when I’m busy doing something else.
– Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
I find that gazing at the ocean often brings me into the presence of something much greater than myself
I took this photo several years ago, and always hoped I would have an opportunity to use it! No quotes, no references, no reflections are necessary. It says it all. And the sign can be found at Spirit Rock, a Buddhist retreat center in Woodacre, California.
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