Mind Your Thoughts
Quotations
Divine Surprise
In our search
for the experience of God
we can be sure only
that it will have little to do
with what we previously expected.~ Raimon Panikkar
The Sacred World
The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.
–Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, ed., Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth (The Golden Sufi Center: 2013), 1.
“the God of little things”
Neither a fall from a horse
nor an encounter with an angel is required:
sometimes, all that is needed is a misstep on the street
in order to find “the God of little things.”~ Raimon Panikkar
Pic © 2015 Lily Brock
Measure of Our Attention
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness
in the ruthless furnace of the world.
To make injustice the only measure of our attention
is to praise the Devil. ~Jack Gilbert
There Is Here
We should not dwell
on utopian ends,
a heaven “above,”
but on the journey
itself.
It is not what
we will achieve
but the way
in which we get there
because there is here.
~Ilia Delio
Relationships
There is no peace, mercy,
forgiveness, or love
without persons
who exist in relationships
of peace, mercy
forgiveness, and love.~ Ilia Delio
Heaven and Earth
…earth is not
a training ground
for heaven.
It is, rather,
the very place
where heaven unfolds.
~Ilia Delio
Spirituality’s Risk
The great risk
of all spirituality
is that it so easily
becomes a surrogate
for being present
to life.~ James Finley
“just live”
Before undertaking any project, assuming any stance, fulfilling any purpose, we are called upon to abide ourselves, to do what we do, to “just live,” and in simple presence to life learn to expect nothing out of anything and everything out of nothing. ~James Finley
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