Brother Weeps Gives a Word on Love
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Brother Weeps once said,
"To love much is to suffer much.
To love little is to suffer more."
♥
~ Dan Miller © 2021, All Rights Reserved.
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Nature’s Power to Mirror
We must first honor and cherish all creation as an expression or mirror of the Divine Beauty. "This, then, is salvation, when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise the beautiful providence of their Creator," wrote Meister Eckhart.
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The Great Currency ~ A Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
What I’ve seen on my rounds is that if you are lucky enough to have the opportunity to reflect at the end of a life, then love is revealed as the great currency. It’s the thing. The treasury. It’s what mattered. Few gloat Read more [...]
Absolute Attention is Prayer
Today's Life-Line is:
Simone Weil says, “Absolute attention is prayer.” And the more I have thought about this over the years, the truer it is for me. I have used the sentence often in talking about poetry to students, to suggest that if one Read more [...]
Musica Memento 8
The famous, former television newscaster Dan Rather has a show called The Big Interview. It's as much hobby as semi-retired work. As it turns out, Rather is a music lover. Most of his guests are musicians, singer-songwriters, with an occasional actor, Read more [...]
Look, Listen: The Teachers Are All Around Us
Today's Life-Line is:
But now ask the animals to teach you,
the birds of the air to tell you;
Or speak to the earth to instruct you,
and the fish of the sea to inform you.
Which of all these does not know
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Compassion — The Index of Our Humanity
To be a man or woman of compassion is to be present to those in pain in such a way that they feel safe enough, if they choose, to reveal their wound to us. Then after reverently receiving their storied-pain, we reverently reach out to touch them, at times Read more [...]
Brother Weeps on Contemplation
Brother Weeps was speaking about prayer when he said, "In contemplation, we act the lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son, and allow the One of Great Concern to find us. That's all. But that is everything -- to come out in the open as oneself before Read more [...]
Musica Memento 7
Some years ago now when I first launched The Sacred Braid and began writing THE ALMOND TREE, a friend casually commented, as if to remind me, "You know you're not a blogger, Dan. You're a writer." I didn't really know at the time what that meant, but Read more [...]
Three to Get Ready
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.” ~ John O’Donohue
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, 'What are you going through?'" ~ Simone Weil
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