"For too long, we have believed that the divine is outside us. This belief has strained our longing disastrously. This is so lonely since it is human longing that makes us holy. The most beautiful thing about us is our longing; this longing is spiritual and has great depth and wisdom. If you focus your …
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The Unknown
"Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown." - John O'Donohue The unknown is always lurking just around the corner. It is that which exists but is of yet beyond the reach of our comprehension. It is that which has not yet manifest and is of yet a figment of the …
The Subversive Invitation
As you know I have long sought to elaborate upon the means by which and through which you might come to live a more generative, meaningful, and purposeful life. My daily posts draw on personal experiences, as I feel writing simply from the standpoint of theory on this topic is of little value, though I …
When your soul awakens…
"Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold …
A Sacred Gift
"May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder." ― John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong Rather than dreading the light of a new day, of fearing its unknowns, and of bemoaning its absences, look instead to rise and great this day with a …
Words of Love
“Beannacht / Blessing" by John O'Donohue 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, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue …
The Gift of Encouragement
"One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own." - John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong I realized in a new way today one of …
The Sun
"The Sun" by Melville Madison Bigelow Heart of the worlds! thy mighty pulses beat Upon the furthest planet’s untrod shore; They gild the surges of old seas that roar Beyond man’s power to pierce their safe retreat. Great Heart! and yet thy morning pulse-beams greet The little rose a-tint with blushes o’er. See! spreads his …
Perpetuity
"Perpetuity" by Frank Dempster Sherman I heard a sweet voice singing in the night A tender love-song written years ago, To ease a poet’s heart of that deep woe Born of long absence from its dear delight; And as the music like a bird took flight Across the shadowed world and vanished so, I thought …
Auld Lang Syne
I found myself humming the tune of the traditional folk song used to put the lovely Scots poem "Auld Lang Syne" to music yesterday and it got me thinking about the nature of life and living. "Auld Lang Syne" translates roughly to "long, long ago" and the poem is generally recognized as a call to …
Gregory Hake 