Loretta Staples' series of artworks created at a Zen center are filled with mysterious resonance and connection.
Tag: contemplation
Mary Oliver – To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
Great wisdom may be addition by subtraction - by releasing our preoccupation with individual identity, we enter a vast and bountiful connection with all of life.
Danny Diaz – Verdigris
Texas poet Danny Diaz reveals to readers of his poem "Verdigris" the hinge upon which viewpoint transforms.
(The Japanese Art of Naikan, and) Thanking Our Mitochondria
Gregg Krech directs gratitude to some of the most essential and overlooked entities in our lives - thank you, tiny, hard-working mitochondria!
Rainer Maria Rilke – A Walk
In this short and inspiring poem, Rilke asks what beckons us towards ideal states and what value does the search provide?
Naomi Shihab Nye – The Art of Disappearing
A tribute to the serene wisdom of choosing when to step into the light and when to fade into the shadows.
The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day
Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.
Carl Jung and The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man
Carl Jung knew that the sense of something important missing from our lives would eventually lead to the search for a path back into ourselves.
Keeping Silence of the Heart: Cultivating Attention and Sobriety According to the Philokalia
Philokalia means 'love of the beautiful and the good', and the writings that were added to this collection were mostly concerned with the importance of awakening and developing attention and consciousness.
Tracy Ahrens – Thicket of Memories
'We all age. We all die. We all should keep trying to rise to the sunlight. Saplings will learn from this determined climb.'