Mikkelson

“It was on Iona years ago that I first became aware of the need to reclaim some of the features of ancient Christianity in the Celtic world as lost treasure for today. Part of that treasure is the much-cherished image of John the Evangelist, also known as John the Beloved, leaning against Jesus at the Last Supper. Celtic tradition holds that by doing this he heard the heartbeat of God. He became a symbol of the practice of listening—listening deep within ourselves, within one another, and within the body of the earth for the beat of the Sacred Presence.”
― John Philip Newell, The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings

“Some Things, Say the Wise Ones Some things, say the wise ones who know everything, are not living. I say, you live your life your way and leave me alone. I have talked with the faint clouds in the sky when they are afraid of being left behind; I have said, Hurry, hurry! and they have said: thank you, we are hurrying. About cows, and starfish, and roses, there is no argument. They die, after all. But water is a question, so many living things in it, but what is it, itself, living or not? Oh, gleaming generosity, how can they write you out? As I think this I am sitting on the sand beside the harbor. I am holding in my hand small pieces of granite, pyrite, schist. Each one, just now, so thoroughly asleep.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume Two

“Bede Griffiths says of the way of relationship with other faiths that we need to stop living from only “one half of our soul.”4 We need to open to the treasure of wisdom in traditions other than our own. Not only have they much to teach us, but they also hold the key to unlocking depths within our own religious inheritance that we know nothing of as yet.5 Jesus says, “You must be born anew.” Rebirth means letting go of the cords of confinement so that newborn vision may emerge.”
― John Philip Newell, The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on this earth. – Thich Nhat Hanh”
― Jeff Foster, Falling in Love with Where You Are