When the wind stops, the trees still move, the way my heart creaks, long after it bends. I am always surprised at the aftereffect of being moved deeply by something. I can be hurt or disappointed or feel the warmth of being loved or the gentle sway of being...
If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from. A caveman picking berries was cornered by a wild and now extinct creature, and when he was spared by the sudden snap of a tree limb that scared the beast off, he took a piece of the fallen bough as a...
“One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art in conducting oneself in lower regions by memory of what one has seen higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. ” Rene Daumal In the 700’s in the Tang...
“Once a man was about to cross the sea. A wise man tied a leaf in the corner of his robe and said to him ” Don’t be afraid. Have faith and walk on the water. But look here – the moment you lose faith you will drown.” Sri Ramakrishna We often move away from...
“Everything in the Universe is interconnected. Within each it is reflected.” Lourdes Pita I think this insight explains why we are so drawn to certain things; why, of all the fallen branches, I will go to the one that most resembles the way I’ve had to bend all my...
