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Have We Come Far Enough to Find God?
It could be that God has not absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of… Continue Reading “Have We Come Far Enough to Find God?”
Where Do You Find Peace?
The Peace of the Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood… Continue Reading “Where Do You Find Peace?”
Drink of the Experience of Spring, While It Is Still Spring
The one who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above
And Mark Twain once said, “Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
In All of Nature We Find God’s Initials
All animals who lift their voices at dawn sing to God. The volcanoes and the clouds and the trees cry to us about God. The whole creation cries to us penetratingly with a great joy about the existence and the beauty and the love… Continue Reading “In All of Nature We Find God’s Initials”
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… Continue Reading “Finding God”
Wisdom from Walden
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Mystery
It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman
What Is More Important than Life?
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Morning, a Sign of God’s Compassion
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion. – Meister Eckhart
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