“Both And,” a Poem by Glenda Taylor
I am a wave in love with the sea. I am the ocean. Oh! That wave’s waving at me! I am a wave, moving [...]
Last Night, a poem
Last Night 1:30 a.m., alone, outside, in the full moon’s light, in this beloved forest, I gaze and gaze into [...]
Quotation by Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder at Columbia University in 2007, via wikimedia, CC2.0 “A great poet does not express his or her self, he expresses all [...]
Kabir, Mystic and Poet
Kabir, 1825 Painting of Kabir Weaving, Public Domain Kabir was a mystic and poet born in India around 1398. As an infant, he [...]
Poem: First Flowers
First Flowers The first flowers I remember (though there were earlier others, to be sure, as pictures exist of me, in my Sunday best, [...]
Timeline of Some Ancient Writings
Timeline of Ancient Writings In my years of research, I have learned that it is useful to have a timeline of "who said what" "when." [...]
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On Centering GalleryOn Centering
Change: Quotations, Consciousness, Energy, and Matter: Quotations, Cross-Cultural Mythology, History and Culture, Intention and Expectation: Quotations, Mysticism: Quotations, Native American, Oneness and Unity: Quotations, Poetry, Psychology, Spiritual Diversity: Quotations, Spirituality
On Centering
On Centering The quotations are all from the book The Tao of Symbols, published in 1982 by James N. Powell “…Where [...]
Mary Oliver with Coleman Barks
Mary Oliver is one of my favorite poets and her approach to spirituality finds echoes, I hope, in my own life and work. To honor [...]
The Bottom Line, a poem by Glenda Taylor
The Bottom Line, by Glenda Taylor You see, it’s like this, sort of: Because I experience Something-That-Is, Awestruck, I respond and in so doing, I learn, [...]
Icy Thoughts
The temperature outside dropped to 18 degrees last night. The whistling, sometimes moaning wind brought down dead tree limbs and even dead trees. In the [...]