Why not be an anarchist for love?
Explode as gently as a rose.

Can Krishna’s sky be scrawled on a wall?
Does Mary appear in a fractal of shattered glass?

The face of chaos, like the face of the […]

On the cross, Jesus said, “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.” Did he carry the sins of the world, or drop them?

The center of the cross is a place that is light and free, without sin or […]

The gates to the stars are the portals of my body. I shall not transcend my flesh. I shall journey through it into deeper holiness. There are worlds of angels in each atom. At the center of a proton, the boundless […]

Amidst the dazzling exhalation of exploding supernovae and the passionate in-breath of black holes, galaxies whirl wildly while God, vastly smiling, spins on one centripetal toe at the center of all, shouting, […]

In the begin­ning,
God looks into the mir­ror
of his own Spirit
and sees Christ
as the bril­liant sun.
This mir­ror is the womb
of eter­nal silence
and the Mother of God,
for even God is moth­ered
by a […]

 ”O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam!” ~Exultet, Easter Vigil

When I was a baby, I knew how to hide in the space between electrons.

People saw me bouncing and laughing, but they had no idea where I was hiding. Even today when I go there, I can’t find any me.

But it’s […]

In the final analysis, awareness is the only discipline. You can transform the world simply by being aware of it. But most of us are not aware. We are just thinking.

For a few minutes a day, morning and […]

St. Augustine wrote, ‘O God, our hearts are ever restless till they find their rest in You.’ But God is restless too. God yearns for our hearts. From divine yearning, creation arises. Oneness yearns for […]

Om Tahomaya Namah. I bow down to the Great Mountain Mother whose very name means, in the native tongue, ‘breast that nourishes us with white streams.’ I offer you these Cascade Lilies. Holding one for […]

Do you know the difference between silencing the mind and becoming the
silence? After midnight, trying not to hear the rain, how lonely! Better
to listen. Listen to listening. Who is there to be alone when a […]

In the beginning, One
became Two

so that He could listen

to Her.

But She did not speak.

She danced naked and silent

before Him who dumbfounded

babbled and gazed,

gazed and […]

I celebrate Christmas to celebrate the incarnation of God in every human child.

I celebrate Christmas because each of us is the Light that shines in darkness.

I celebrate Christmas because Mary’s child […]

In the great sweep of cosmic history, absolutely nothing significant
will happen in the coming year, as nothing significant happened in the
past year.

For a few brave people, however, the end of the Mayan […]

“The child is father to the man.” (William Wordsworth)


Childhood is both source and destiny.

From the earliest age we were taught to leave childhood and “grow up.” We were taught to name things and, […]

To create its effect, every cause must pass through the realm of the miraculous.

The miraculous realm is the space between two thoughts. That a galaxy or a single seed both sprout from this space is a miracle. […]

The poet who planted his soul in death’s green childhood has spoken the rose of February. Winter whispers among the wolves, ‘You can only anticipate the past.’ Talon-footed April gouges the tombs of Autumn for a […]