I Ching … preponderance of the small

​It is not necessary to venture so far as to trust the Unknown, but it is essential to dispense our distrust of it … We know that the situation is important and therefore we distrust ourself and Fate to carry us through.  We should resist this fear before...

The stillness of the moment …

Heading into 2020,the Christmas festivities behind us, how quickly we can forget those wishes for peace we extended to friends and family.  Already planning the year ahead; planning to get on, to get ahead, to move forward.  We live in a world of activity;...

Our birth is but a sleep and …

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our Life’s StarHath had elsewhere it’s setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness.And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we comeFrom God, who is our...

Falling upward …

How surely gravity’s law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of even the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world …This is what the things can teach us:to fallpatiently to trust our heaviness.Rainer Maria Rilke: Book of Hours