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Little things today

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In the dew of little things

the heart finds its morning

and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran

Not always clear

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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability —
and that it may take a very long time.

Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit theologian and scientist, died this day 1955

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Easter Sunday: Presence

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sunday

The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere
a signal arrives: “Now,” and the rays
come down. A tomorrow has come. Open
your hands, lift them: morning rings
all the doorbells; porches are cells for prayer.
Religion has touched your throat. Not the same now,
you could close your eyes and go on full of light.

William Stafford, Today

Absence

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saturday

We are asked to live in companionship with patterns and dynamics that are either disappearing, have not fully emerged or can never be fully named;

patterns perhaps already changing into forms for which we have yet no language.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances

as much as by gifted appearances,

allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living

David Whyte, The Poetic Narrative of our Times

Adjusting

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The art of life is a constant adjustment to our surroundings

Okakura Kakuzo, 1862 – 1913, Japanese scholar and writer

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How to move through this day

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Body, like a mountain,

Heart,  like the sea

Mind, like the sky.

Dogen

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