Stretching Toward the Roof

The sun
Won a beauty contest and became a jewel
Set upon God's right hand.

The earth agreed to be a toe ring on the
Beloved's foot
And has never regretted its decision.

The mountains got tired
Of sitting amongst a sleeping audience

And are now stretching their arms
Toward the Roof.
-Hafiz

Lord of the Worlds --
The Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful,
...
Guide us to the straight path.
-al Qur'an 1:2-3, 1:6

Moment after moment, everyone comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
-Shunryu Suzuki

Opted for a shorter, more strenuous run today and brought my dog with me. Winter rain's not so bad!

Supposed to be a high of 41 tomorrow with 90% chance of rain. But tomorrow is my long run day...the only one I get all week. Gonna need some extra spirit to get started...

Running in the Rain - NYTimes.com

I love this: You can You can You can.

Poetry Daily: Advice in the Form of Confusions, by Margot Schilpp

The Secret Life of Chaos -- BBC 4 Documentary - Full-length!

O Love

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,
Be all – worlds dissolve into your
stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with your brighter
than cold stares –
Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
-Rumi

Space reaches from us and construes the world: to know a tree, in its true element, throw inner space around it, from that pure abundance in you. Surround it with restraint. It has no limits. Not till it is held in your renouncing is it truly there. 
--Rainer Maria Rilke

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
--Carl Sagan

St. Luke the Righteous's Buddha Nature

Tomorrow commemorates the feast day of St. Luke the Righteous of Greece, a dreamer, a giver, and a vegan mystic who tried desperately to live out his life in pure ascetic solitude but kept failing at it. People loved him too much to let him alone. After trying for years to flee into seclusion, he finally opened a hermitage in the village of Steiri at the foot of Mt. Helicon and lived out his days healing people. Like the Buddha, he found a true path.

Wake, butterfly--
We've miles to go together.

-Basho, Zen poet

Inch Time Foot Gem

Not twice this day.

Inch time foot gem.

-Zen koan

This day won't come again.

An inch of time is worth a foot of jade.