“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment, like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go, so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness … […]
by David Whyte When our eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be […]
This morning I so wanted to create a poem for you, so completely was I immersed in perfect, gentle Love … And yet no words could I find to adequately express The Majesty that is you in my life. Regarding the poem, I failed completely … and yet In that failure, Love … … my […]
“Turn into My place and sit quietly. Drink from My stream and My vintage. Cast off your shoes, discard your hardships And listen to My evening song. I seek a heart that is simple. With the peaceful I spread My tent. I will wash your feet and dry them, My silence will be their perfume.” […]
Mine is the force that sustains all creation for I am the power by which it is known. The soft ebb and flow of my rhythmic vibration creates a new self at my outermost zone where space-time existence in dream-lit illusion is more like a garden reflecting y Soul. Yes, mine are the cycles of […]
The mere lover looks to the moon and wonders if his Beloved is casting her gaze there too. Perfect Love looks to the heavens and sends her Peace regardless. The mere lover thinks of his Beloved and wonders is she is thinking of him as well. Perfect Love sends her Joy; desiring her happiness over […]
Only a beige slat of sun above the horizon, like a shade pulled not quite down. Otherwise, clouds. Sea rippled here and there. Birds reluctant to fly. The mind wants a shaft of sun to stir the gray porridge of clouds, an osprey to stitch sea to sky with its barred wings, some dramatic music: […]
I hadn’t seen my dear friend Fred Lansford in many a moon (living on opposite sides of the globe will do that) and I didn’t expect to see him at all on the last day I ever did. Fred & I had stayed in touch via phone & email whenever my work took me back […]
“My friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love your God by Loving the world … Work often for nothing … Take all that you have and be rich in your giving. Love someone who “does not deserve it”. Denounce your governments and embrace your flags … Do so by daring to live courageously […]
Greetings again, my dear Friends. Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the passing of my dear friend, Fred Lansford – a man of relatively small physical stature, yes, and yet a man by whom every one of us was truly blessed. In truth, especially in his later years – anyone who came into contact with […]
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