TEALarbor stories’ Monday Musings are quotes, mantras,
reveries, poems, & practices offering simple ways to explore the ecotone of
the inner/outer landscape.
In the
desert,
Turn
toward emptiness,
Fleeing
the self.
Stand
alone,
Ask no
one’s help,
And
your being will quiet,
Free
from the bondage of things.
Those
who cling to the world,
endeavor
to free them;
Those
who are free, praise.
Care
for the sick,
But
live alone,
Happy
to drink from the waters of sorrow,
To
kindle Love’s fire
With
the twigs of a simple life.
Thus
you will live in the desert.
Mechtild of
Magdeburg
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