The world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness. The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in [...]
Posts in the Embodiment category
Season of Resurrection
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Do you have a body? Don't sit on the porch! Go out and walk in the rain! If you are in love, then why are you asleep? Wake up, wake up! You have slept millions of years Why not wake up this morning -Kabir I have been away this last week, traveling to visit family [...]
The Exquisite Tenderness of Bodies
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This article also appeared over at Patheos (click on the link and to the right of my piece you can see a whole list of articles for their discussion this week on religion & the body): Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s [...]
Abbey Bookshelf: An Altar in the World (on the body)
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Do you have a body? Don't sit on the porch! Go out and walk in the rain! If you are in love, then why are you asleep? Wake up, wake up! You have slept millions of years Why not wake up this morning -Kabir "In a world where faith is often construed as a way [...]
Notice What's True
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I want to unfold. I do not want to remain folded up anywhere, because wherever I am still folded, I am untrue. -Rainer Maria Rilke I am currently participating in a two-week yoga intensive at a studio near my house. Monday through Friday for two weeks I arrive for my 8:30 class to commit to another [...]
The Vulnerable Body
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One of the most amazing places we visited during our summer journeying was the bone chapel in Hallstatt, Austria. The link to the article provides some more information, but essentially in this beautiful little village tucked between mountain and lake, bones from the cemetery used to be removed to make room for the newly dead. [...]
The Dreams of Your Body
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Humpbacks There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothing so something has to be holding our bodies in its rich and timeless stables or else we would fly away. Off Stellwagan off the Cape, the humbacks rise. Carrying their tonnage of [...]
Emerging
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I spent most of the weekend curled up in bed nursing my migraines. They began Friday morning when we had our Monthly Gathering, a wonderful morning of walking the labyrinth together except that I was in a bit of a haze from pain killers. That afternoon I was able to get my infusion two weeks [...]
Rule of Life at the Abbey
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I have been reading a wonderful article from The Way journal by Andrew Linzey who is a theologian and writer on animal theology. I was delighted to discover that he has in fact published several books on the subject. Linzey writes: "People who keep animals have often made an elementary but profound discovery: animals are not [...]
Honoring the Greater Body
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I am very touched by the response to my post yesterday both in comments and in email. I knew opening up this vulnerable place would begin to shift things in me again, move me again to that place where honoring my body is a gift rather than a burden. I am always struggling in some [...]
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