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GOODBYE
This is the final post for Value of Sparrows. Thank you for all your warmth, support, and enthusiasm. With all my love, [...]
My writing
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When I meditate on healing, and what helps us to stay alive in the face of all that we are faced with, I keep seeing circles. I don’t think this is for just any reason. I have a lesson that deals with circles and with healing, it’s called the lesson of recreation. (Not recreation, as in, sitting on the beach, but re-creation: to create anew.) This lesson is tied to the number eight, which, as you know, is made up of two circles, one on top of the other. This lesson teaches [...]
Thomas Merton poetry
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I. Dawn. The Hour of Lauds. There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious Unity and Integrity is Wisdom, the Mother of all, Natura naturans. There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fount of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being, welcoming me [...]
Evelyn Underhill
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The mystics — to give them their short, familiar name — are men and women who insist that they know for certain the presence and activity of that which they call the Love of God. They are conscious of that Fact which is there for all, and which is the true subject-matter of religion; but of which the average person remains either unconscious or faintly and occasionally aware. They know a spiritual order, penetrating, and everywhere conditioning through transcending the world of [...]
Mysticism
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From the Georgia Review “. . . the natural limitation so flight sempiternally deny the satisfaction of desire. For this is the inherent irony of vision, that it reveals to us the space beyond our bodies, and the shortness of our grasp. Visual perception makes it possible for us to grasp for what is beyond, and, at the same time, to realize that we cannot reach it.” — F. Gonzalez-Crussi, The Five Senses “[T]he chief glory of the desert is its broad blaze of omnipresent [...]
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