In the Beginning Was Love

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November 17, 2017 a project of ServiceSpace At the center of our being is a point of nothingness... It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody. - Thomas Merton - In the Beginning Was Love "I think he [Robert Lax] understood the difference between hearing and listening, and he really emphasized the listening. In fact, one of the things he'd say when we walked along the Patmos shoreline was, 'Well, I'm going to go back up to my place now. There's a lot of listening I have to get to.' And listening for what? I think for all the cosmic sounds, his own heart, his own soul.." A long-time friend of Trappist monk Thomas Merton, and an accomplished poet in his own right, Robert Lax spent the latter part of his life on a Greek island where he practiced his art, and exercised a profound influence on those who knew him. This interview with one of his close friends shares more. { read more } Be The Change As you touch the simple objects in your day, try to see the light within them at the point where their essence is beyond names, identities or categorization. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News How Happy Brains Respond to Negative Things Our Shortened Attention Span & 3 Ways To Stay Focused The Dogs that Protect Little Penguins Dan Siegel: The Open Mind Two Words That Can Change a Life 7 Lessons About Finding the Work You Were Meant to Do Learning to Die Perseverance is Willingness, Not Will DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,306 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More