Beneath the earth lay our fears

that rise if we sit with what seems dead.

For how long can tears be shed at the gravestone

without flowers blooming, inviting a new day?

Tough flowers sprout after violent storms

though tears seem worthless for nurturing seed.

Does the breeze stir to further monsoons

blow petals beyond the border of the world?

Breezes blow while the monsoons pass

and the warmth of the sun 

knows how to hug the patient soil.

-Good Gospel is good psychology.

*Thoughts of Richard Rodriguez:

 -Christianity and the desert religions generally, and Islam certainly, have a great deal to learn from the Asian traditions of contemplative life as a moderating force to the activistic tradition within the West.  Someone once said that not until Christianity arrives in Asia  do we really know its full history, and I think there's some truth to that.  India and China could shape the quality of activism on Christianity and give it a much more paradoxical quality.

 -I do find an element of playfulness in Christianity that's present from the very beginning, from the stable. 

*The loss of self-consciousness, i.e., self-centeredness, is the door that opens to God.

  -Duffy Lawson 

*There is an interaction between seeing and being.  The kind of person yo are effects the kind of world that you see.

 -Simon Tugwell