HEALING: The Art of Breathing
I’ve been thinking a lot about breath lately. I’ve tried reading about it, meditating on it, and looking around me for inspiration about it. (Thank you, thank you.) Today, then, as I looked up at...
View ArticlePOETRY: Hawks, by Lynn Ungar
Surely, you too have longed for this— to pour yourself out on the rising circles of the air, to ride, unthinking, on the flesh of emptiness. Can you claim, in your civilized life, that you have never...
View ArticleFURSA IN LENT: Day Fourteen
From Be Thou My Breastplate, by Paul Wallis Let the smelling of the Holy Spirit be in this nose. (Fursa’s Breastplate) How close must you be to a person before you can smell them? In Fursa’s day...
View ArticlePRAYER: Breath As Prayer, by John O’Donohue
From Four Elements: Reflections on Nature One of the oldest words for God in the Hebrew scriptures is the word “Ruach” which also means breath. Even in early Greek Stoic philosophy the fundamental...
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