Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

One Must Dance Naked

By Alfred LaMotte

You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

OUR LADY. OUR FRIEND.

By Jeff Foster

We stand on sacred ground today. Perhaps even more sacred than yesterday’s ground.

Sojourns in the Parallel World

By Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...

The Wound of Love

By Maya Luna

Today I gave up on healing my trauma

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Where will I find you?

By Georgi Johnson

image by Android Jones Where will I find you? Where will I find you, my friend? In an accusing forest…

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu...

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system.…

The Dakini Speaks

By Jennifer Welwood

My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.

A Life of Zen: Ikkyū, the Crazy Cloud

By Surendra

Please, please don’t worry. How many times do I have to say it?

I No Longer I

By Science and Nonduality and Aldous Huxley

from "Island" by Aldous Huxley Somewhere between seeing and speaking, somewhere Between our soiled and…

A Madcap Baul

By Science and Nonduality

That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul. No master I obey, nor injunctions, canons or custom. Now…

Poem by Fernando Pessoa

By Science and Nonduality and Fernando Pessoa

By Fernando Pessoa (writing under the heteronym Alberto Caeiro) The astonishing reality of things Is…

The Two Selves Within Us

By Science and Nonduality and Rajeev Kurupati

By Rajeev Kurupati The 13th century Persian mystic, Rumi, expresses a distinction between the two selves…

Happy are those who know

By Science and Nonduality

Happy are those who know: Behind all words, the Unsayable stands; And from that source alone, the Infinite…

From Spiralling Ecstatically This

By Science and Nonduality

proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night blossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes - gifted with…

The Sayings of Old Man Tcheng

By Science and Nonduality

French paraphrase of the original Buddhist text by J. Garillot (1974), translated by Else van den Muyzenberg.…

I Witnessed My Maker

By Mansur al-Hallaj

I witnessed my Maker with my heart’s eye. I asked, ‘Who are You?’ He answered, 'You!’ For You one cannot…

You Reading This, Be Ready

By William Stafford

by William Stafford Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining…

The Qualitative Science of the Heart

By Kabir Helminski

There's something beautiful about being together with a group of people whose main interest is understanding…

The Soul of Nature

By John O'Donohue

How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of…

The Thing Is

By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Written after Ellen Bass’s poem of the same name. To trust life, that is the thing. To trust it even…

Singularity

By Science and Nonduality

by Marie Howe (after Stephen Hawking) Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were?…