Mystic Musings: Lent 3/31
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game”
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/30
“Just these two words He spoke changed my life, “Enjoy me.”
St. Teresa of Avila, a16th century Catholic mystic
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/29
“All has been consecrated. The creatures of the forest know this, the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know as does the heart full of love.
Strange a priest would rob us of this knowledge and then empower himself with the ability to make holy what already was.”
St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th century Catholic mystic and “Doctor of the Church”
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/28
Having lunch in a field one day, I troubled an ant with a question. I asked of him humbly, “Have you ever been to Paris?” And he replied, “No, but I wouldn’t mind going.” And then he asked me if I had ever been to a famous ant city. And I regretted that I hadn’t, and was quick to add, “I wouldn’t mind, too!”
This led to a conclusion: There is life that we do not know of. How aware are we of all consciousness in this universe?
Meister Eckhart, a 13th-14th century Catholic monk and mystic
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/27
“With passion pray. With passion work. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?”
Rumi, 13th century Sufi mystic and poet
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/26
“I think the moon is pregnant again. I hope she won’t sue me this time.”
Tukaram, 17th century Indian mystic and poet
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/25
“There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah”
Leonard Cohen,Hallelujah
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/24
“Tenderly, I now touch all things, knowing one day we will part.”
St. John of the Cross, a 16th century mystical poet
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/23
“It helps, putting my hands on a pot, on a broom, in a wash pail.
I tried painting, but it was easier to fly slicing potatoes.”
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/22
“In my travels I spent time with a great yogi. Once he said to me, “Become so still you hear the blood flowing through your veins.”
One night as I sat in quiet, I seemed on the verge of entering a world inside so vast I know it is the source of all of us.”
Mirabai a 16th century Indian mystic and poet
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/21
“I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with such a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.”
Kabir, a 15th-16th century Indian mystic and poet
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/20
“One may never have heard the sacred word “Christ,” but be closer to God than a priest or nun.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, a 13th century Catholic theologian
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/19
“One day He did not leave after kissing me.”
Rabia of Basra, an 8th century Sufi mystic and saint
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/18
“How did those priests ever get so serious and preach all that gloom? I don’t think God tickled them yet. Beloved—hurry.”
St. Teresa of Avila, a 16th century saint and mystic
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/17
“You can see forever in a single drop of dew.
You can see that same forever if you look down deep inside of you.”
Dan Fogelberg Magic Every Moment
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/16
“We were born before the wind
Also, younger than the sun
'Ere the bonnie boat was won
As we sailed into the mystic
Hark now, hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/15
“Every object, every creature, every man, woman and child has a soul and it is the destiny of all,
To see as God sees, to know as God knows, to feel as God feels, to Be as God Is.”
Meister Eckhart, 13th-14th century Catholic monk and mystic
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/14
“No one knows his name—a man who lives on the streets and walks around in rags.
Once I saw this man in a dream. He and God were constructing an extraordinary temple.”
St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th century Catholic saint and mystic
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/13
“The words Guru, Swami, Super Swami, Master, Teacher, Murshid, Yogi, Priest, most of those sporting such a title are just peacocks.
The litmus test is: hold them upside down over a cliff for a few hours. If they don’t wet their pants…maybe you found a real one.”
Kabir, a 15th-16th century Indian mystic and poet.
Mystic Musings: Lent 3/12
"I am," I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
“I am,” I cried
“I am,” said I
And I am lost and I can’t
Even say why
I Am…I Said by Neil Diamond