The 60-Second Sabbath

discovery

  • The Moment

    How is itwe find such truthin nakedness,in union? [which makes familiar our essential strangeness] What is it about the moment,    transcendent,    fleeting,    holy? Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Parable

    "And lo,"he said,"the kingdom of Godis like unto a bride, who,in the whisper of an evening breeze,suffused with the saffron of a setting sun,lets drop her robe and stands naked before her beloved,and in that moment    claims herself,and in that… Continue reading

  • The Truth Beyond

    Jesus did not point to himself.Jesus pointed to the Truth beyond himself.Don't get stuck with making Jesus    the sum and total of your faith.This is not what he wants,not according to the gospels. Don't get stuck,if you are of… Continue reading

  • The Random Pen

    My pen, I realize,has made its own stray marks on the pageas I dozed off–stray marksor a cryptic messagefrom my subconscious? Some do look like letters–perhaps even words;decipherable,with an imaginative stretch:perhaps"let go,"or,"less goo,"or,"left again." Maybe the ambiguity is intentional,and whatever… Continue reading

  • The Path

    So you,too,tread the pathto the sacred?Share with me your observations. I feel like a memberof a secret society,where identifying fellow-travelerstakes great sensitivityand the practical skillsof silence and patience,until the light of another–unexpectedly–touches me. And…? I anticipate (and find) joywhile being… Continue reading

  • Comrades

    Why do we fearour comradesfrom the underworld? They represent the realitythat underlies, undergirds us. If we are willing,they revealthe truth beneathour wearying effortto control, stifle, fathom,that which we fear will fracture us. Where darkness and light meet–    beneath the… Continue reading

  • The Border of Language

    I like lurking at the border of language,where the tongue blurs, slurs with vagueness. I hover here at the brink of Eden,eager to taste my own marrow. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Each child is born in truth.(It's in living we learn to lie.) What gifts do you offerto bring us backto original innocence? Share them.Share them now. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Failure

    Take risks. Failure is,at the very least,a place you're not in now. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Crystal Circle

    I come upon a crystal circle,a fragile wheel of healing,spun along the edge of early mornings cliffswhose steep and rocky slope drops down, downto the broad, silent sweep of the Arkansas. I step within this ring of glowing stonesholding breath… Continue reading