What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
Tag: perception
Wallace Stevens – The Snowman
A poem imbued with a sense of healing and strength cultivated over many seasons, enabling the capacity for wide-open looking and listening.
David Whyte – The Opening of Eyes
Whyte's poem of clear seeing: the experience of holiness is the very ground that is under our feet.
Alison Granucci – Says the Body and Soul
Composed of two contrasting parts, Alison Granucci's "Says the Body and Soul" is both an ethereal hopeful work and one of rugged desolation.
Lindsay Rockwell – Watching the Light Shift
Both revelatory and mysterious, Lindsay Rockwell's "Watching the Light Shift" shows us the path without giving us the answers.
‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.
William Wordsworth – The Rainbow
This short poem - Wordsworth's ode to a rainbow - is a simple and direct expression of awe and manifestation of 'beginner's mind.'
Amanda Smith-Hatch – Redemption
Amanda Smith-Hatch's Redemption is an attempt to capture the profundity hidden within a seemingly banal moment in time.
Avoiding Extremes: Buddha’s Discourse on the Middle Way
Buddhist thinking about existence and non-existence is characterised by a re-framing of the parameters of the question, to be or not to be?
Esso Station
BY SUSAN DI RENDE It was the summer of 1959. I was four years old, sitting in the back of my parents’ Rambler driving down Route 60 past motels, restaurants, and gas stations.