To walk with tender assent is to walk steely as a mountain in cloud, your delight concurring with heaven.  

I Ching, Hexagram 10, “Walking”

The sound of water says what I think.  
Chuang Tzu  370-287 BC
 
What the river says, that is what I say. 
Wm Stafford, 1914-1993

"Who inside Daddy gave Mommy the flowers?"

Rody, age 4
 

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Emerson

Great power, not clinging to power, has true power.

Lao Tzu

We have ways within each other
that can never be said by anyone.
--  Rumi

The way that can be told
is not the eternal way.
--  Lao Tsu

My heart can take on any form: a meadow for gazelles, a cloister for monks; for the idols, sacred ground; Ka’aba for the circling pilgrim.  The tablets of the Torah, the scrolls of the Koran.  My creed is love.  Wherever its caravan turns along the way, that is my belief, my faith.      

 Ibn Arabi 1165-1240

Who is it we spend our whole lives loving?

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.  It will not lead you astray.   Rumi

Everything only connected by "and" and "and."
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges
of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)
Open the heavy book. Why couldn't we have seen
this old Nativity while we were at it?
--the dark ajar, the rocks breaking with light,
an undisturbed, unbreathing flame,
colorless, sparkless, freely fed on straw,
and, lulled within, a family with pets,
--and looked and looked our infant sight away.
Elizabeth Bishop

Bread

Somewhere there is a love for what isn’t yet, as Kuehlewind put it, that it might become. 

In the end, we are always looking for the kingdom of God.   

-- R. Steiner, lecture of  Oct 7, 1922
 

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.

Here, there is no spot
that doesn't look right at you.
You must change your life.

-- Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo"

Remember: We capitalize LORD by virtue of a translation tradition, from Hebrew into English....  More on that in weeks to come!

The eye through which I see God is the eye through which God sees me.

-- Meister Eckhart

Only a god can save us now.

-- Martin Heidegger, 1976

In the Name of the Bee, and the Butterfly, and the Breeze:  Amen!

-- Emily Dickinson

It’s strange to be here.  The mystery never leaves you. 

-- John O’Donohue