I find that it is better to love badly and faultily than not to try and love at all. God does not have to have perfect instruments, and the Holy One can use our feeble and faltering attempts at love and transform them. My task is to keep on trying to love, to be faithful [...]
Feast Day of St. Francis De Sales born: 1567–died: 1622
Patron saint of journalists.
Video – Song – Wings of Desire
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them–every day begin the task anew.”
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January 21, 2010 Daily Devotional
Meditation Video: Relax Snow – Kokin Gumi – Zen Garden
How many mystics have suffered from feeling abandoned by God! In reality, God didn’t abandon them; it was they who failed to remain conscious of his presence. God never abandons us; it is within our own consciousness that these [...]
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY
Song: We Shall Overcome sung by Mahalia Jackson (video)
Song: Go Down Moses by Louis Armstrong (video)
In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I [...]
Video – Handel: Water Music — allegro.
With these outflowings, river-like, with deltas
that spread like arms to reach the open sea,
with the recurrent tides that never cease
will I acknowledge you, will I proclaim you
as no one ever has before.
— Rainer Maria Rilke from the poem Dedication translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
The Rainer [...]
Video – The Beauty of Nature
Winter Feast for the Soul starts today.
January 15 — February 23
The inspiration for the Winter Feast of the Soul came out of a three-line Rumi poem:
What nine months does for the embryo,
Forty early mornings
Will do for your growing awareness.
Based on the success of the first Winter Feast in Idaho [...]
Wake and listen … from the future come winds with secret wingbeats.
- Nietzsche
WINTER FEAST FOR THE SOUL STARTS TOMORROW
AKAR SANKRANTI/LOHRI HARVEST FESTIVAL (Hindu)
Sankranti means to go from one place to another place (to change direction). It also means one meets another. The time when the sun changes direction from one constellation (of the zodiac) to another is known as Sankranti. It is celebrated in [...]
Few experiences in life compare with waking up in the morning after a snowfall and looking outside. The sight is stunning, the landscape glorious and beautiful, and the feeling one has is nothing less than sublime. Only after modernity with its high-powered engines, tampers with winter’s wonder, does the snow become filthy and unpleasant.
Where does [...]
