Topic Tags: shema

“Listen to the still small voice whispering your name…”

“Breathe. I command myself to focus on the words Shema Yisrael…”

“If you were not, / I never would have seen the face of creation.”

A ritual for mindful and embodied recitation of the shema

“A cosmos of vibrations / Held gently within / This boundary / That is me.”

“the prayer was dance”

“keep me open to wonder and awe so I don’t lose my way in the small places of heart and mind”

“Adonai Ekhad, One God / One life, eleven lives, too many”

“Come, splendid author / Of every satisfied moment, / Of all that is enough.”

Interpretive translation of second paragraph of the Shema