questions

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I had tea yesterday with a great theologian,
and he asked me,

“What is your experience of God’s will?”

I liked that question –
for the distillation of thought hones thought in others.
Clarity, I know, is freedom.

What is my experience of God’s will?
Everyone is a traveler. Most all need lodging, food,
and clothes.

I let enter my mouth what will enrich me. 
I wear what will make my eye content,
I sleep where I will wake with the strength to deeply love
all my mind can hold.

What is God’s will for a wing?
Every bird knows that.


—St. Teresa of Avila

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I searched for God and found only myself. 

I searched for myself and found only God. 

—Sufi

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As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. 

And as the old Greeks said: live as though 

all your ancestors were living again through you.

—Ted Hughes

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