winter

Every Door

Emily Dickinson | January 2020 (Vol. XXXIII, No. 1)
Not knowing when the Dawn will come,
I open every Door.
~ Emily Dickinson

A space in which both worlds meet

Kabir Helminski | January 2020 (Vol. XXXIII, No. 1)
Anyone who has probed the inner life, who has sat in silence long enough to experience the stillness of the mind behind its apparent noise is faced with a mystery. Apart from all the outer attractions of life in the world, there exists at the center of human consciousness something quite satisfying and beautiful in itself, a beauty without features. The mystery is not so much that these two dimensions exist – an outer world and the mystery of the inner world – but that we are suspended between them, as a space in which both worlds meet ... as if the human being is the meeting point, the threshold between two worlds.
~ from THE KNOWING HEART by Kabir Helminski

In my hand

Jeannie Martin | February 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)

winter rain
the warmth of your hand
in my hand

~ Jeannie Martin

The thumb alone would convince me

Sir Isaac Newton | February 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)

In the absence of other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

~ Sir Isaac Newton

Our hands before our eyes

Swami Vivekenanda | February 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)

All the powers of the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

~ Swami Vivekenanda

Of my hands

Ray Repp | February 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)

Of my hands I give to you, O Lord
Of my hands I give to you.
I give to you as you gave to me
Of my hands I give to you.

~ from hymn by Ray Repp

I have held many things in my hands

Martin Luther | February 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
~ Martin Luther

Shake hands

Gandhi | February 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
~ Gandhi

In our palms

Michael Scotts | February 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)
Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects in our palms.
~ Michael Scotts

Good human work

Wendell Berry | February 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)
Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands.
~ Wendell Berry in THE ART OF THE COMMONPLACE
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