I think God is on earth,

inside every living being.

What we call the divine

is none other than the energy

of awakening, of peace,

of understanding, of love,

which is to be found not only

in every human being,

but in every species on earth.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

to live in this truth….

inquiry for today~ may it be as you love….

a precious remembrance….

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. A man of the Classical Age who had to live in medieval times would suffocate miserably just as a savage does in the midst of our civilization. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standard, no security, no simple acquiescence. ~Herman Hesse

We too are living now through such a world, caught again between two ages, confused and conflicted, suffocating and suffering. But we have a powerful instrument for self-understanding, for cutting through the confusion to draw from these civilizational phase transitions new and stronger structures of possibility: the creative spirit.

~Maria Popova