Category: Meditations

“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?

Walking the labyrinth is a form of contemplation—not a maze, which is a puzzle to be solved, but rather a winding path that you might wander toward your own heart’s center.

What form of movement helps you to find your center?

You might not expect to find the Virgin Mary in a wine shop. On the other hand, it happens pretty often that we meet the Holy residing in places where we did not anticipate discovering it.

Where have you been surprised by the sacred?