“I close my eyes and think of water.”
– James Wright
Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa wrote, “When you awaken your heart…there is nothing there except for tenderness.” In “Trying to Pray,” Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright evokes the healing tenderness that arises during times of sorrow and struggle when we include, too, subtle goodnesses in our field of experience and awareness.
Trying to Pray
This time, I have left my body behind me, crying
In its dark thorns.
Still,
There are good things in this world.
It is dusk.
It is the good darkness
Of women’s hands that touch loaves.
The spirit of a tree begins to move.
I touch leaves.
I close my eyes and think of water.
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Love is a frequency not an emotion; a frequency that unites all frequencies. It stems from the heart so you stop thinking and rest in the knowing that ..Be Still and know that I AM God .. is who you are.