Showing posts with label St. Thomas Aquinas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Thomas Aquinas. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Our hearts irrigate this earth





.


How is it they live for eons in such harmony -
the billions of stars -

when most men can barely go a minute
without declaring war in their mind against someone they know.

There are wars where no one marches with a flag,
though that does not keep casualties
from mounting.

Our hearts irrigate this earth.
We are fields before
each other.

How can we live in harmony?
First we need to
know

we are all madly in love
with the same
God.



~ St. Thomas Aquinas
(Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West 
by Daniel Ladinsky)


Friday, February 5, 2010

Every creature has a religion



.
Every creature has a religion.  Every
foot is a shrine where
a secret candle
burns.
.
Every cell in us worships
God.
.
Every arrow in the bow of desire
has rushed out in hope
of nearing
Him.
.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
.