A COVID-19 Admonition

Widening Circles

By Rainer Maria Rilke

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.

Taste Your Life Now

By Ellen Emmet

There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

This is Not a Poem

By Fred LaMotte

Just a murmur whose poor thoughts won't reach the edge of the page.

Advice to Myself

By Louise Erdrich

Leave the Dishes

Sweet Darkness

By David Whyte

When your eyes are tired, the world is tired also

The Return of the Black Madonna

By Matthew Fox

A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century

"Pandemic" a poem

By Lynn Ungar

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath—the most sacred of times?

Surrender

By Susan Donnelly

Give up the search for a path through this thick forest of life;

The Age of Authenticity

By Maya Luna

We see the game. The jig is up.

Medicine of the Real

By Chameli Ardagh

What a kindness she showers upon me, not letting me skip any steps, or leave not even one stone unturned.

Illness as Companion

By John O'Donohue

We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.

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.

Subtle Sacraments

By Paul Swanson

Where do you see a window you can open for a subtle sacrament to slip into your day?

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

By Shawn Radcliffe

Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…