had

looking but not finding

finding while not seeking

found in the searching

searched while not seeking

lost while not losing

losing yet maintaining

maintained in the losing

losing what was found

flights without planes

without cars or mopeds

speed us toward ourselves

at the heart of our urgings

we are lost and found children

of parents without fingers

strolling through a garden

in search of a store

ours the plight of not knowing

that we are known and loved

by the Unknown Lover

inspiring us to know

o strange journey and dark-drives

in the limo of our striving

driving us toward the Driver

by the light of the Spirit

thus we had though not wanting

and had when not searching

had when not holding

yet held in our fallings

*The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.

  -Madame du Deffand

*I want to show all that death is preferable than a life without justice and liberty.

  -words of Yenesaw Gebre (an Ethiopian) who set himself afire, and died, to protest against the Ethiopian government, November 7, 2011

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -An excessive love of absolute abstraction only indicates a spiritual impotence.

  -To be read is to be eaten.  The best reader is the one who transform the work totally into herself, enjoying her own music.

  -In the spiritual order there are no professors, only discoverers who reveal to others while they gradually renew themselves.  They're the only ones whom we try to re-enact within ourselves, start us on our way without even wanting to.  They hold no worldly authority; their only authority is that of authors - that is, those who engender, nourish and increase life.