Daily Signet

People who live mechanically, rationally, seek only to make sense—to make sense to their own little brains. That is arrogance. But anyone who would live Vitally, must go within and listen to the Holy Spirit whose language is beauty, love, enthusiasm where each one is selfless and live—in the mind of the heart where it is generative and you are creative. 

Here I am.  Go, unlike Gawain, into the night, into the wilderness. Unlike Gawain. And how do I get there, being always here?  Going nowhere.  Fulfilling in this moment, the design that builds the generative.  And so, generating the next moment rightly, joyously, beautifully and generatively.  As I become one, whole, synchronous this way, I grow too in the design.  I don’t “get there”.  I bloom from this design, make fruit, make seed—and go again.  Maturity should be added—not new “you”.

See the design and never fail it.  It was given you by God.  It’s Origo.  

WMB, from The Omnific Journey

On This Day…

St. Gregory: Bishop of Nyssa, 4C

St. Ita: 12C virginal nun who, in order to repulse lusty suitors, wore a large stag beetle instead of a crucifix

Birthday of Swami Vivekananda, born 1863 in Calcutta

Daily Signet

….anyone who would live Vitally, must go within and listen to the Holy Spirit whose language is beauty, love, enthusiasm where each one is selfless—and live in the mind of the heart where it is generative and you are creative. 

Here I am…. And how do I get there, being always here?  Going nowhere. Fulfilling in this moment, the design that builds the generative. And so, generating the next moment rightly, joyously, beautifully and generatively. As I become one, whole, synchronous this way, I grow too in the design. I don’t “get there”.  I bloom from this design, make fruit, make seed—and go again….

See the design and never fail it. It was given you by God. It’s Origo.  

William Boast, from “The Omnific Journey”

On This Day…

William James born 1842 in New York City: philosopher, psychologist, first educator to offer a psych course in America, and leading thinker. Works: The Varieties of Religious Experience, Principles of Psychology. 

Quotes: “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

Daily Signet

We raise with reddened hands our sacrifices
Beseeching sameness, pittances
Fearing the glory of the dragon
Whose lashing tail sends our hoarded structures flying,
Whose blazing breath lays waste our hovel, our crumbs
In preparation for the sacred fecund darkness
From which will spring unknown newness.

Donna Piper Leichtling

On This Day…

St. Agatho: husband, businessman, monk and 79th pope, 7C

Robinson Jeffers born 1887 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Poet whose poetry celebrated life on the west coast of California. Works: Stones of the Sur, The Wild God of the World. Died, 1962. Quotes: “The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.” “I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.” “One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock – strength, the sea’s cold flow and man’s dark soul.”

Philip Levine born 1928 in Detroit, Michigan: poet and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize who wrote about working class life in Detroit.  Works: What Work Is, The Simple Truth, Not This Pig. Quotes: “I write what’s given me to write.” “I’m saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.” “I was lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.”