The Need to Win
When an archer is shooting for nothing He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He …
Category Archives: Reflections
Non-attachment
Old Man at Leisure Sacred or secular manners and conventions make no difference to him. Completely fee leaving it all …
Two Poems on Death
For the Anniversary of My Death Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires …
Two Poems by Tu Fu
CLEAR AFTER RAIN Autumn, cloud blades on the horizon. The west wind blows from ten thousand miles. Dawn, in the …
Troparion
Lord, This woman who encountered her shadow perceives the numinous in You, leads the women who come with grief and …
The Sound of Silence
He was a young man, but completely the master of the seven strings and of the complex music…. The musician …
Great Life-Giving Spirit
Great Spirit of love, come to me with the power of the North. Make me courageous when the cold winds …
But perhaps God needs the longing
But perhaps God needs the longing, wherever else should it dwell, Which with kisses and tears and sighs fills mysterious …
A Garden beyond Paradise
Everything you see has its roots in the Unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. …
You are Christ’s Hands
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, No hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the …
