Sunday afternoon waxes The morning rush wanes Slow tempo Quiet grace Dawdling No agenda No guilt Permissive Spacious gift Notions of wasted time Dissipate in repose Celebrate living Thrive Disabused of notions Anything requires doing Nothing calls Only respite
Tag: peace
Poetry Brings Me Peace
When I am overwhelmed by discord and dissension in my life and many places, I often find comfort in the words of poets. The following are words from Rumi, the Sufi mystic and poet of the thirteenth-century. May this poem offer you encouragement and an invitation to that "field" Rumi describes! Out beyond ideas of … Continue reading Poetry Brings Me Peace
Being Undivided
What brings you peace? Peace has become for me a sense of wholeness, completeness, and relationality. Rather than understanding peace as the absence of something- for instance, distraction or pain -I understand peace as the inclusion of these as part of my whole daily path. One of my teachers taught that human beings tend to … Continue reading Being Undivided
Infinitely Precious 