I said: What about my eyes? He said: Keep them on the road.

I said: What about my passion?

He said: Keep it burning.

I said: What about my heart? He said: Tell me what you hold inside it.

I said: Pain and sorrow?

He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rufi

It is in humility and mercy that we begin to find our way into the secret of God’s face. 

—James Finley, The Healing Path: A Memoir and and Inivitation

It is our ‘presupposition that the pressures of life are on one side while God is on some other side.’ It was precisely at the pressure points of life that God is to be looked for. As he [MacLeod] liked to say, God is to be found on the high street of life, in the busyness of our lives.

—J. Philip Newell reflects on words of Iona Community founder, George MacLeod

God always and forever comes as one who it totally hidden and yet perfectly revealed in the same moment or event.

—Richard Rohr, Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality

For a simple reaching out directly towards God is sufficient, without any other cause except himself.

—Anonymous Author of the Cloud of Unknowing

Instead of looking for what is right or wrong in the world, look for truth.

—Joseph Nguyen, Don’t Believe Everything You Think

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

—Terese of Lisieux

God is the Process by which the universe produces persons, and persons are the process by which God is manifest in the individual.

—Mordecai M. Kaplan, Founder of Jewish Reconstructionist Movement

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with her…The people who give you their food give you their heart. —Cesar Chavez

The Light of Blessings

Blessings abound. Even in the turmoil, even amid all the brokenness, blessings abound. Life is filled with treasures. Loving relationship, joyful moments, music, poetry, art, the magnificence of the natural world. Goodness is present. Noticing the blessings and allowing ourselves to experience the good strengthens and sustains us. It gives us energy, inspires the spirit and raises up joy. —Rabbi Yael Levy