Facing the keyhole . . .

The moon on Moon Day is now waxing from new, ten days from the vernal equinox . . . and a lovely day it is here in Okieland.

I'll be looking at the moon … but I'll be seeing you.

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Seeing things through a narrow keyhole … there is too much of the self in the way. – Richard Rohr, in Meditations at CAC.

… Facing what is, we struggle to remember the simple character of our own voice. – David Whyte

As the mind develops spiritual qualities and gets rid of all that hinders them, it increasingly gains the ability to see clearly the nature of phenomena, until it perceives the ultimate nature without any obstruction. This perception of phenomena as they really are is the wisdom that knows everything without the least misconception. It is a state of wisdom that cannot be veiled, nor can it deteriorate. – H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, in The Way of the Bodhisattva, Shambhala Publications, 2018.

... human kind cannot bear very much reality ... at the still point of the turning world …

– T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets: Burnt Norton,” in The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909–1950 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980).