"He whose soul remains ever turned toward God through the nail, though the nail pierces it, finds himself nailed to the very center of the universe"
Simone Weil, Affliction & the metaphor of the Nail
The aesthetic life is a preamble to faith
a moment in time
A Memory of Hunger in the Desert
An essay on the physical and metaphysical modes of Hungering
The Sunflower
A practice of returning, a testimony of bearing witness
Sparrows & Cubism
Thoughts on perceiving from viewpoints of multiplicity
Simplicity of Prayer
1. Audio recordings of Thomas Merton teaching the novices at Gethsemani 2. Mary Oliver poems from Devotions
Verses on the Faith-Mind
Verses on the Faith-Mind, composed by Seng-Ts'an, Third Zen Patriarch
The Steps of Humility
A close reading of The Steps of Humility written by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1127.
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