From Parabola:
Thomas Merton
"… I putter about the hermitage, make the bed, wash the breakfast dishes, sweep the porch; and something begins to order itself inside me as I order my external world. The ordering and puttering become a kind of prayer, a way of attending to the human which is a way of attending to the divine, charged as we are and the world is with the presence of God. Domestic chores also become simply something to do. One cannot pray and meditate unendingly. There is a rhythm to life lived anywhere that calms the heart if we surrender to the necessities of the world around us and the world within."
—Thomas Merton
Odilon Redon "Buddha Walking Among the Flowers,"1905.
“In this world … there are three things of value for one who gives.
What are these things?
Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy.
While giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful.
After having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.”
—The Buddha (AN 3.6.37) By way of It's Like This?.
Gustave Moreau "Job and the Angels," 1890
“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it.”
—Simone Weil
Erwin Stolz (1896-1987) “Sunrise," Ink Drawing
The Book of Hours I, 2
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Thomas Merton
"… I putter about the hermitage, make the bed, wash the breakfast dishes, sweep the porch; and something begins to order itself inside me as I order my external world. The ordering and puttering become a kind of prayer, a way of attending to the human which is a way of attending to the divine, charged as we are and the world is with the presence of God. Domestic chores also become simply something to do. One cannot pray and meditate unendingly. There is a rhythm to life lived anywhere that calms the heart if we surrender to the necessities of the world around us and the world within."
—Thomas Merton
Odilon Redon "Buddha Walking Among the Flowers,"1905.
“In this world … there are three things of value for one who gives.
What are these things?
Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy.
While giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful.
After having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.”
—The Buddha (AN 3.6.37) By way of It's Like This?.
Gustave Moreau "Job and the Angels," 1890
“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it.”
—Simone Weil
Erwin Stolz (1896-1987) “Sunrise," Ink Drawing
The Book of Hours I, 2
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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