“God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.”
Meister Eckhart
Or, in terms more blunt …
“It ain’t what they call you. It’s what you answer to.”
W.C.
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The Scribbling Woman: A Companion to the Writerly Life
A Journey Without a Map
“How can I become the adventurer instead of the timid mapmaker?” our own Abigail Horgash I met the now twenty-something Abigail Horgash when she was just a teenager. She attended a writers’ conference where I was teaching, dressed to the nines (she was, not I!) in heels and a suit and conducting herself with far
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Pretend You Know Nothing
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”Shunryu Suzuki I may be running a risk in quoting from Zen Buddhism in this group! If you stick around here, you’ll find that I know a Universal Christ which doesn’t disregard the wisdom of other paths, even as I continue
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Your Great Charm
“Just trust Life:Life will bring you high,if only you are careful in selectingin the maze of events, those influences or those pathswhich can bring you each timea little more upward.” Pierre Teihard De Chardinscientist-philosopher-poet-priest I’m an easy touch for anybody who has a labyrinth for sale. We’re talking necklaces, earrings, one small enough to hold
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Giving Your Journey a Name
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables First of all, if I’m
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Just Something In the Stars
It was something in the stars that was new enough To tellThere was something going down. From “Old Sage” by Steve Bell and Jamie Howison Recently I listened (and let me say, raptly) as a friend recounted her life-changing trip to Greece. Face lit up, eyes bright, hands shaping every stone of every ruin, she took
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