shifting..........................

 

     Do we live in a profane world, or do we say, "Yes, indeed, sacred space is right here"? Where are we?  Awakening the mind that seeks the way to learn, to grow, to study, to investigate, already we are shifting into sacred space.  Something could come through us.

     Instead of aiming to go somewhere else, where everything is so much better, the Zen imperative is to recognize that the sacred is here by practicing, living, cooking in the way of sacred space.

-Edward Espe Brown, No Recipe:  Cooking as s Spiritual Practice

In the year 2020............................

 "All we can know is that we know nothing.  And that is the sum total of human wisdom."

-Leo Tolstoy

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Sanctuary............................

"You take the action and the insight follows.  It was my mother who taught me how to wander through the racks of the Belvedere-Tiburon library, and wander through a  book, letting it take where it would.  She and my father took me to the library every week when I was little.  One of her best friends was the librarian.  They both taught me that if you insist on having a destination when you come into a library, you're shortchanging yourself.  They read to live, the way they also went to the beach, or ate delicious food.  Reading was like breathing fresh ocean air, eating tomatoes from old man Grbac's garden.  My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words, about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found.  In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way.  I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds.  Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks:  sacred space.  So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library."

-Anne Lamott,  Plan B:  Further Thoughts on Faith