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…
Come to Hiroshima by Ron Hertz
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…
First Morning of the World by Zachary Horvitz
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…
Spanish Ballad by Tony Hoagland
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…
A Blessing for the New Year by John O’Donohue
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…
Whenever He looks at you – St. Thomas Quinas
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…
The One Thing You Must Do – Rumi
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…
The Fox by Mary Oliver
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…
In Impossible Darkness by Kim Rosen
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…