"Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places."
I am a recovering fundamentalist Christian, a lapsed Quaker, a secular Buddhist, a spiritual Humanist, a proud agnostic with a master's in Religion, and the author of Presence and Process. When I'm not theologizing and thinking deep thoughts, I'm a songwriter and musician.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
I was sitting in my hotel room last night, CNN on the TV, Facebook on the laptop, email on the smartphone; and the words of Wendell Berry's 'How to be a Poet' came to me in gentle rebuke:
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