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A River Moving by Rumi

Oct 25, 2014By Pól

When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When actions come from another section, the feeling disappears. Don’t let others lead you. They may be blind or, worse, vultures. Reach for theRead more…

Oct 25, 2014Pól 0 Comments

Come to Hiroshima by Ron Hertz

Aug 6, 2014By Pól

Come to Hiroshima to those who with no shame condone annihilation of whole cities or nations please come to Hiroshima come in early August when the heat is worst make sure you’re there on the sixth when the sweat runningRead more…

Aug 6, 2014Pól 1 comment

First Morning of the World by Zachary Horvitz

Mar 31, 2014By Pól

On the first morning of the world God gave himself a gift — an anonymous gift called wakefulness. He didn’t ask for anything. He didn’t ask for it. Like all gifts it was terrible. Imagine the burden of stars. ImagineRead more…

Mar 31, 2014Pól 0 Comments

Spanish Ballad by Tony Hoagland

Jan 9, 2014By Pól

That barista, Mother, with the dark-roast eyes and the silver nail through her left eyebrow, who pulls the handle of the espresso machine with such imperial ennui – Mom, does she not know that she is killing me? I haveRead more…

Jan 9, 2014Pól 0 Comments

A Blessing for the New Year by John O’Donohue

Jan 1, 2014By Pól

Beannacht On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, mayRead more…

Jan 1, 2014Pól 10 comments

Whenever He looks at you – St. Thomas Quinas

Nov 28, 2013By Pól

God sees nothing in us that He has not given. Everything is empty until He places what He wishes into it. The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.Read more…

Nov 28, 2013Pól 2 comments

The One Thing You Must Do – Rumi

Aug 16, 2013By Pól

There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there’s nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have doneRead more…

Aug 16, 2013Pól 3 comments

The Fox by Mary Oliver

May 15, 2012By Pól

All night under the pines The fox moves through the darkness With a mouth full of teeth and a reputation For death which it deserves. In the spicy Villages of the mice He is famous His nose in the grassRead more…

May 15, 2012Pól 0 Comments

In Impossible Darkness by Kim Rosen

May 14, 2012By Pól

Do you know how the caterpillar turns? Do you remember what happens inside a cocoon? You liquefy. There in the thick black of your self-spun womb, void as the moon before waxing, you melt (as Christ did for three daysRead more…

May 14, 2012Pól 0 Comments

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