Posted September 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Living with Animals

From a poem by American poet, Walt Whitman:

     I think I could turn and live with animals,      they are so placid and self-contain’d,      I stand and look at them long and long.

     They do not sweat and whine about their condition,      They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,      They […]

Posted September 30, 2015 in Monthly News

The Altering Eye

In The Mental Traveller, the nineteenth-century poet William Blake says, “For the eye altering alters all.” In the poem, Blake is exploring the spiritual history of humanity as well as his own spiritual history. Regardless of the degree to which we are aware of it, we all have a spiritual history and a sense of […]