Mary Niker Mindfulness

Though we need to weep your loss,
You dwell in that safe place in our hearts
Where no storm or night or pain can reach you.

Your love was like the dawn
Brightening over our lives,
Awakening beneath the dark
A further adventure of color.

The sound of your voice
Found for us
A new music
That brightened everything.

Whatever you enfolded in your gaze
Quickened in the joy of its being;
You placed smiles like flowers
On the altar of the heart.
Your mind always sparkled
With wonder at things.

Though your days here were brief,
Your spirit was alive, awake, complete.

We look toward each other no longer
From the old distance of our names;
Now you dwell inside the rhythm of breath,
As close to us as we are to ourselves.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the blessing, 'On the Death of the Beloved.'
Found in the books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

(art: Edward B. Gordon)

The Depth of Life

When medieval monks were asked how they practiced their faith, they said, “By falling down and getting up.” This is the human journey from which no one is exempt. We are constantly challenged to get up one more time than we fall, to open one more time than we close, and to put things together one more time than we take them apart. The Japanese proverb, Nanakorobi yaoki, puts it this way, “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”

This rhythm between fragility and resilience informs the practices that keep us human. Yet no one can give these practices to you. Each of us must discover and inhabit them for ourselves. This is why the heart of my teaching has always been a commitment to introduce you to your own gifts and wisdom. And so, [we] explore the perennial choice-points we all face such as surviving and thriving, managing risk and enhancing risk, opening and closing, giving and receiving, living a balance between solitude and community, enlarging our sense of things when pain and fear make us small, and the never-ending practice of course-correcting and tuning as we go.

An excerpt from my book: Falling Down and Getting Up

"Love does not have to be expressed in words; it is seen and felt in action. Love is the language of silence."

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“Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
George Eliot

Artist: Heinrich von Zügel

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