Category Archives: Mysticism

The one

Posted on June 20, 2010 by

… passionate ending to / many long dark nights. Continue reading →

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Heart murmur

Posted on March 14, 2010 by

Here in the darkness – Continue reading →

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You are so far away now

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

My mind is turned away, / it won’t allow you to enter Continue reading →

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Open our wings

Posted on January 18, 2009 by

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. – Rumi (1207-1273) These words were sent to me by a friend as part of her birthday wishes, … Continue reading →

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Nothing is for itself

Posted on November 27, 2008 by

The rain does not fall for him, nor does the sun shine for her. And you as well were created not for yourself but to share. – Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) Translated from the German by Johannes Beilharz.

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A door

Posted on May 8, 2008 by

Not the da Vinci original but a copy from the protestant church in Haigerloch, southern Germany. The person to the left of Christ is clearly a woman. This painting is older than Dan Brown’s The da Vinci code but would … Continue reading →

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Guided towards the eye by breasts and roses

Posted on April 21, 2008 by

I walk across a spill of objects on bare chafed feet. I step on drum jugs and notice they’re breasts, but hard, their nipples like the flat ends of hazelnuts. A forest of wind-blown trees fades into greyness. Amidst the … Continue reading →

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Body & Soul

Posted on April 21, 2008 by

Why deny this body its rights? It is this soul’s one and only and best container this time around. – Niebla A somewhat late response to “Body and/or Link” (Two for Tuesdays VIII).

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Blancura

Posted on May 31, 2007 by

White is white. What’s the news? Snow is far away, so this white must be a dead dream, right? – Niebla (© 2007)

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Modest question

Posted on April 22, 2007 by

What is my share in this world? What can I give it, and how am I engrained in it? – Leonard Blumfeld (© 2007) The author writes about this: “I carried this thought along on my walk this morning, forgot … Continue reading →

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