This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently … Continue reading
Category Archives: Poems & Stories
Tasting Mindfulness
“Have you ever had the experience of stopping so completely, of being in your body so completely, of being in your life so completely, that what you know and what you didn’t know, that what had been and what was … Continue reading
The Peace of Wild Things
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests … Continue reading
BEANNACHT (“Blessing”)
“On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, May the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window And the ghost of loss gets into you, May a flock … Continue reading
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell … Continue reading