Sublime

In his careful elucidation of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, he established the means by which implicit memories can be converted to narrative ones.

The idea of rippling, of passing along to others what has mattered to one life, implies connection with other self-aware essences; without that, rippling is impossible.

in pursuit of a clear perspective

for discerning ordained vocations.

In recognising and accepting the impermanence of all things we choose awareness over attachment, flow over resistance.

A monk is a man who is separated from all and who is in harmony with all. —EVAGRIUS PONTICUS

His poems contain a luminous simplicity that expands until it pushes your ego out of the nest, and there you are, alone with Truth. In a Tranströmer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Rumi's worldview is grounded in the imperative never to lose faith in hope. He reminds us, however, that hope is never far from fear: “Show me a fear without hope, or a hope without fear. The two are inseparable.” And these simple words are more potent now than ever as we are assaulted each day by messages of death and doom in our media-saturated l