The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the โsigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.โ I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James DuncanWhen experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
David James DuncanOur lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".
David James DuncanEverybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die weโll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesnโt mean weโll get turned into witches. You canโt avoid getting zapped, but you can avoid passing the mean energy on. Thatโs the interesting thing about witches, the challenge of them-- learning not to hit back, or hit somebody else, when they zap you. You can bury the zap, for instance, like the gods buried the Titans in the center of the earth. Or you can be like a river when a forest fire hits it--phshhhhhhhhhhhh! Just drown it, drown all the heat and let it wash away.
David James DuncanThere are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.
David James Duncan