“Do not be daunted
by the enormity
of the world’s grief.
Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated
to complete the work,
but neither are you free
to abandon it.”
~ The Talmud ~

still in the radiation of the new moon and partial soular eclipse, i awaken today with all of the sneezes from yesterday settling as cold in my head and begin as i love beginning each day with opening the heart and luxuriating in a love that breathes me throughout the day… one of my last communions of the day is attending online the 33rd Annual Salem Peace Lecture…

love the synchronicity of this peace lecture on doing away with nuclear weapons coming right in the middle of the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis and what a gift to spend an hour with a being who’s devoted his life to medicine – the medicine of peace and of listening and dialoging and taking action which Dr Hafland called us to repeatedly as he outlined the perilous place we are in now after a couple of generations of thinking we no longer were in danger of destroying ourselves with nuclear weapons… even though we are in such crisis now, we do have the ability in ourselves and our communities to take action to take us beyond the brink and as the Talmud proclaims, “we are not obligated to complete the work but neither are we free to abandon it.” our lives and the lives of all relatives depend on it…

i’m going to turn in early tonight as rest is such a good medicine, and now, may we all rest in:

SWEET DARKNESS

“When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
It’s time to go into the night
where the dark has eyes
to recognize its own.
It’s time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you
can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will make a home for you tonight.
The night
will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.”

~ David Whyte ~