I have opened myself up to a whole new world with dazzling sights I never knew but now from way up here it's crystal clear that now I'm in a whole new world with

or without you.

And in this way, I can give and keep, allow and prevent, give and take, all in a single action.

All the cosmic power of the universe... in an inny bitty little space.
But oh, to be free.

Pray.

Not the busy chatty prayer we often do, but the other kind: prayer as emptiness, prayer as silence, prayer as stillness. Prayer as the absence of wanting and asking. Not the clamoring man waking his neighbor, desperate for bread, but the suckled child curled up, satisfied in the mother's arms

mark b. ~ the holy wild.