The 60-Second Sabbath

Peace

  • Being at Peace

    What a joy to learnthere is no faulty or unworthy selfthat needs to be improved. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Trust Life

    My parents raised meto distrust life.Despite their religious grounding–or perhaps because of it–life loomed, imperiously sinister.      "The world's a horrible place,    and we are horrible people." Enough. I shall trust life.I shall affirm and embracethe peace and loveat… Continue reading

  • The One

    If God exists,and God is All in All,then nothing that existsis not God. All faithsare expression of this One God,and all existwithin the wholenessof this All-EncompassingOne. Whatever differences we perceive(and we do perceive differences)–they will one day be seenas they… Continue reading

  • Life is the strugglebetween Ego and Stillness. Chin up, my friend:Stillness wins. Or more precisely,only Stillness is.  Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • The Monkey and the Tree

    Your thoughtschatter like a monkey. You are not the monkey. You are themagnificent,stately,ancient tree,reaching to the clouds,rooted in the earth,offering shade,silent,strongand wise, through whose branchesraces the monkey. Shrug your massive branches,and let the monkey fall to the forest floor.He is… Continue reading

  • Catku

    Cat sleeps around cat.Sable bodies become one–union, no pretense. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Sermon in the Park, Part 1

    "That whole eye-for-an-eye,    tooth-for-a-tooth thing?That's crap–    always has been.It never was a part of the plan." He speaks,    as he loves to do,to friends and supporters    gathered at the parkon a warm summer evening    close… Continue reading

  • Thinning Walls

    How thin these walls have become,the walls between youth and age,    between the conscious and the unconscious,    between this world and the next,    between my heart and yours,    between our hearts and theirs. Permeable.Translucent. Through ever-thinning wallsI hear other voices.I… Continue reading

  • Glamourpuss

    This catgives new meaningto the wordglamourpuss. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Today’s Assignment

    Look steadily into the eyesof any animalwilling to accept your gaze. Be still there. What is to be known?What do you learn about yourself?What is revealed of God?  Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading