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Sunbeams

You don’t tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Richard Bach, Illusions

A Listening Heart

The key word of the spiritual discipline I follow is “listening.” This means a special kind of listening, a listening with one’s heart. To listen in that way is central to the monastic tradition in which I stand. The very first word of the Rule of St. Benedict is “listen!” — “Ausculta!” — and all the rest of Benedictine discipline grows out of this one initial gesture of wholehearted listening, as a sunflower grows from its seed.

Homonculus

Sunbeams

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

The Appassionata Lectures

Good Marriages

A miracle, a third person in the relationship: Jesus, a fourth divorce

Brothers And Sisters

Forgiveness, gratefulness, an uncomfortable dinner

Intuition

The honesty that comes from the heart, the higher octave of the intellect and feeling mind, the flash when love enters in at the eye

Around The Rugged Rock

Such primal taciturnity, thought Rex of the rock, and after all it’s heard — the roar of the victor, the bleat of the victim, and all the echoes thereof ten thousand times over. Surely, I’ve fallen in with good company. Surely, a revelation is in the offing.

The Gabriel Books

Freedom

“The Gabriel Books” are a series of small cartoon books.