Teilhard de Chardin The world must have a God: but our concept of God must be extended as the dimensions of our world are extended. ~ Teilhard de Chardin, from Letters from a Traveller For more inspiration, meditate with the mystics
Right Action Arising * Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen Do you have patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself? Listen. If you listen carefully enough you will in time know exactly what to do. ~ Derrick Jensen, from A Language Older than Words For more inspiration, meditate with the mystics
Toward the Future * Teilhard de Chardin
Teilhard de Chardin Material creation no longer stretches between man and God like a fog or a barrier. It develops like an elevating, enriching ambience; and it is important not to try to escape from this or release oneself from it, but to accept its reality and make our way through it. Rightly speaking, there are no sacred or profane … Read More
Contemplating Trees * Martin Buber
Martin Buber I contemplate a tree. I can accept it as a picture: a rigid pillar in a flood of light, or splashes of green traversed by the gentleness of blue silver ground. I can feel it as movement: the flowing veins around the sturdy, thriving core, the sucking of the roots, the breathing of the leaves, the infinite commerce … Read More
Natural Poetry * Basho
Basho “Your poetry arises by itself when you and the object have become one, when you have plunged deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden light glimmering there. However well phrased your poetry may be, if your feeling isn’t natural – if you and the object are separate – then your poetry isn’t true poetry but … Read More
Beyond the Brain * Vimala Thakar
Vimala Thakar “Going beyond the brain, transcending its dimensions, is not turning your back on the content of culture. It is not running away or announcing: “All that is worthless for it is not the absolute reality.” Going beyond the brain, you enter into elegant simplicity, but the elegance of simplicity requires a very mature being. You require maturity to … Read More
False Images & Atheists * Martin Buber
Martin Buber “The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.” ― Martin Buber For more inspiration, meditate with the mystics