Writer Anne Lamott says that our prayers fall into two categories: Please or Thank You.
The Bhagavad Gita says that every kind of worship is the right kind, even if we come to our chosen deity only at times of crisis (what might be called foul weather faith).
The divine that we choose to bow cares not one iota why you are bowing — that question is of the human realm. The realm of the divine only cares.
I once loved a man in whose potential I believed deeply. Our bond was built on a shared desire to live free from shame, a promise I made to myself when I was 20 and echoed by him years later when we met. Though he and I lived toward the same end – the goal of giving...
I am writing this where I have been doing most of my writing for the past month – in a small hotel room with bad lighting and an open suitcase. Currently the setting is Rome, a place I swore I would never return. It was an ugly city that first time, in my eyes it was...
There is a world in which I never fully existed, one that will always be yours and not mine. Which is another way of saying that you died before you could tell me all your secrets. Maybe I am there with you in some way. In a wisp of memory you held as your light faded...
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