Sunday Quote: Sitting with dragons

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Our deepest fears

are the dragons guarding from us

our greatest treasures.

Rilke

Mysteries

46   Sunlit bloomTruly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.

How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds
will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.

Mary Oliver, Evidence.

Sunday quote: In darkness and silence

There is a place

where words are born of silence.

Rumi

A prayer in time of difficulty

P1000282O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you. I cannot do it alone.
In me it is dark, but with you there is light.
I am lonely, but you do not desert me.
My courage fails me, but with you there is help.
I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience.
I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me.

Dietrich Bonhoffer,Lutheran pastor imprisoned and executed by the Nazis.

Being true to the possibilities

And from a more recent Irish writer:

All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time.

John O’Donohue, Anam Chara

Photo: Flickr User Amerune

Sunday: A wish for the day

Because of the day that is in it….

Dia dar gcoimead agus Dia  dar dteagasc,  Dia dar seoladh ar bhothar ar leasa

(May God keep us and teach us

and lead us on the right way)

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig :   Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.