Many religious traditions light candles in prayer—memorializing the dead, asking for healing, expressing gratitude for something special. Light reaches out, expressing our conviction that we touch, and are touched by, far more that our hands can hold.
Who or what would you like to light a candle for today?
Perhaps you might go to such a place only in your imagination—a place of sacred stones and grass that is the green of life itself. But your life could be richer for that imaginary journey into beauty and peace.
Where do you like to go in your imagination?
“Prayer begins where human capacity ends.”
—Marian Anderson
Web-weaving spiders don’t hunt down their prey. They carefully prepare their web, and then they simply wait to see what will arrive, taking everything as it comes.
What have you achieved through a combination of preparation and patience?
“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
—Muhammad Iqbal
How does science connect you with the spiritual?
