Sublime

All three rituals are liminal (threshold) moments, fittingly enhanced by Elijah, the liminal personality—part human, part angel—the mysterious stranger who spans heaven and earth, virtuoso of the in-between.2

Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness.

There is a special kind of Purgatory that involves waiting for something not to happen.

It took time for me to accept that where we are has as much to do with our formation as with whom and during what. Place is the one thing that always is. We are always somewhere. I have been without people but never without place. Perhaps that is why it is so easy to become numb to it.

sanctuary, in the way I think and talk about it, is this place where we gain different shapes, where we lose shape, where we compost. And how do we do that? We do it by listening, we do it by working together in ways that are probably fugitive and outside of the normative ways of producing food or money or stories. We do it by listening to our woun

Indeed, we first have to establish a self before we can let go of one. That self is a provisional and convenient designation but not ultimately real in any enduring, unchanging way. To say that there is no limited, fixed self is a way of referring to the boundless potential in each of us—our buddha mind or buddha nature. We…

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Tossing out definitions of high, low, good, and bad is the first step toward grasping the indefinable nature of the Infinite Self.

we try to see who we really are and what we really have. We try to acknowledge the emptiness of what we have been doing.