The Church of the Ordinary

Quiet Friend Who Has Come So Far

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Let this darkness be a bell tower

Sweet Darkness

By David Whyte

When your eyes are tired, the world is tired also

Figuring Forward in an Uncertain Universe

By Maria Popova

Meanwhile, someplace in the world, somebody is making love and another a poem.

I No Longer Pray

By Chelan Harkin

Now I drink dark chocolate and let the moon sing to me.

The Healing Time

By Pesha Gertler

Finally on my way to yes, I bump into all the places where I said no

Cannot Be Tought

For silence is not God, nor speaking

In the Realm of the Passing Away

By Stephen Livine

All that exists does not for long.

For the Uses of Man

By John Muir

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable...

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.

Thealagie

By Shekhinah Mountainwater

In the beginning is Goddess

Advice to Myself

By Louise Erdrich

Leave the Dishes

Senseless Perfection

By Maya Luna

Waiting for Santa

By Scott Kiloby

Many on the spiritual path rightfully long for a sudden point in time when a shift happens

The Age of Authenticity

By Maya Luna

We see the game. The jig is up.

The Joy of Sorrow

By Jeff Foster

It's simple. When you feel sad, just feel sad.

Subtle Sacraments

By Paul Swanson

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