Ruah Bull - Spiritual Director

 Think of the universe as one living creature, made of one substance, one soul: how all is absorbed into this one consciousness; how a single impulse governs all its actions; how all things collaborate in all that happens, the very web and mesh of it all.

 Take care of Mother Earth and She will take care of you Take care of your brother and sister Take what you need but not more than you need Share what you have Give thanks to the spiritual source  of the Universe

 You are above me, O God. You are within.  You are in all things yet contained by no thing. Teach me to see you in all that has life that I may see you  in the Light of light. Teach me to search for you in my own depths that I may find you  in every living soul.

 In all ten directions of the Universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.

 I love you, gentlest of Ways, who ripened us as we wrestled with you. You, the great homesickness we could never shake off, you, the forest that always surrounded us, you, the song we sang in every silence, your dark net threading through us, on the day you made us you created yourself, and we grew sturdy in your sunlight.... Let your hand rest on the rim of Heaven now and mutely bear the darkness we bring over you. 

 Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.