Healing
Many of us pray the words of Jesus daily, with the Our Father. Midway through the prayer we say, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who are in debt to us.”...
We glibly pray this at every Eucharist and often in our personal prayers. Yet, it calls on us without any glibness. All of us know intimately how hard it is to forgive someone who has ... See more
We glibly pray this at every Eucharist and often in our personal prayers. Yet, it calls on us without any glibness. All of us know intimately how hard it is to forgive someone who has ... See more
Jesus’ Prayer of Forgiveness
The Buddha proclaimed, “I teach liberation through non-clinging.”
‘I want a life!’ Freedom from dependency on the prison of roles and duty
There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.
Reading Gillian Rose
Encountered this late-in-life prose poem by Czeslaw Milosz while kicking around different epigraphs for my book; now hearing a voice say "you can stop worrying ... you did what was assigned to you" at age 90 is officially a life goal: https://t.co/jby9VlDiuy
All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs by Christian… | Poetry Magazine
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The image I give is this: two images.
One, Thomas Merton said, “In the moment of your death, you can get all the people in the room with you that you want. They can all climb up in bed with you if you want, but you’re dying alone, and you’re that alone right now. And you’ll never find the intimacy you’re looking for by avoiding it. Because hidden in
... See moreI didn’t know how old Martha was. Maybe she was 11. Maybe she was 27. Probably something in between. Before she came to live with me, she lived in Puerto Rico, she had two puppies, she was cared for by someone who house trained her and also made her afraid of newspapers. Martha was loving and enigmatic. Independent. When we lived in Brooklyn, she w... See more
Jean • My best friend and my witness
“Everything changed for me when I realized that I could take the anxious, scared 11 year old version of myself up on the stage with me. I could take his hand, listen to his fears, and say: yeah, there’s a lot of people out there. yeah, it might be a bit scary to perform in front of them. yeah, we might mess up. but it’s all good. we’ll be okay. it’... See more