sacred threads ~ say ‘hello’ to this moment

Posted by on May 19, 2010 in sacred threads, Uncategorized | 5 comments Thich Nhat Hanh, a contemporary Buddhist monk, writes with great elegance of the joy to be found in bringing our awareness to the present moment.  He encourages us to be so completely immersed in the task at hand that it becomes to us the most important thing in our life. He writes, “While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way...
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practice of the presence

Posted by on Sep 7, 2009 in sacred threads, this i believe | 2 comments It’s probably a little sacrilegious that I put myself (and you too) in the same realm as saints & sages.  Oh well.  Along with saints and sages, I think that we, too, can know and live in the Truth of the joyous declaration from the Koran, “God is the East and the West, and wherever ye turn, there is God’s face.”  Such a declaration demands that we expand our ideas...
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