#attention is prayer

[existential-celestial]

Franz Wright, “Preparations,” in God’s Silence

[rotgospels]

[...] in the story they are paying attention. They lose themselves eyes open.

Carl Phillips, “Parable,” Pastoral: Poems.  

[en--dear]

“Looking For Your Face” by Rumi

From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it

Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace of the face that I was looking for

Today I have found you and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday are sorry that they were not looking as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty and wish to see you with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion and has searched forever for this wondrous beauty that I now behold

I am ashamed to call this love human and afraid of God to call it divine

Your fragrant breath like the morning breeze has come to the stillness of the garden You have breathed new life into me I have become your sunshine and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstacy Every fiber of my being is in love with you

Your efflugence has lit a fire in my heart for me the earth and sky

My arrow of love has arrived at the target I am in the house of mercy and my heart is a place of prayer

[neoyorzapoteca]

Simone Weil

[existential-celestial]

Franz Wright, from “Introduction,” in God’s Silence

[existential-celestial]

Franz Wright, God’s Silence

[existential-celestial]

Sophokles, Antigonick (translated by Anne Carson)