As you may know, Dean is in need of a heart transplant.
Over the past 10 or 15 years, Dean has lived with a degenerative heart condition--congestive heart failure due to idiopathic hypotropic cardiomyopathy. After periods of more-or-less remission, in which his heart was stabilized and improved with the help of medications, the function of his heart has worsened. Now, radically.
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a video by D.J. Dolack of the recent benefit reading for dean Young at the National Arts Club in Manhattan.
Readers include Robert N. Casper, Joe Di Prisco, Matthea Harvey, Edward Hirsch, Mary Karr, Matthew Rohrer, Gerald Stern and Dara Wier.
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...and Dean Young on the telephone.
To make an online donation, please visit Dean Young's pageat the National Foundation for Transplants.
Dionysius the Areopagite called Pseudo - to differentiate him from the Dionysius mentioned by Paul in Acts. He lived in the 6th Century and has had a profound impact on Christian mystics.
Daydreaming - not the activity of having thoughts, but allowing one's attention to get lost in them - is an obstacle to presence, an obstacle to love which exists only in presence, an obstacle to our embrace of the fullness of life, and to contemplative practices in all traditions..
Consider the turtle. A whole summer - June, July, and August - is not too good nor too much to hatch a turtle in. Perchance you have worried yourself, despaired of the world, meditated the end of life, and all things seemed rushing to destruction; but nature has steadily and serenely advanced with a turtle's pace.
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression falls away. We rest in the night.
what is the nature of the world?
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.You want somehow or other to maintain that the world is real. What is the
standard of reality? That alone is real which exists by itself, which
reveals it...
Kabir ~ Tū kā tū ~ You, only you
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Hey wise wanderer, what’s the
secret?
Just live your life well.
In this world, fl owers, branches—
wherever I look,
you, only you.
An elephant is y...
Everywhere Veiled - Fakhruddin Iraqi
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* Art by Joe Maccer at Deviant Art*
Everywhere veiled
by Your own Face
You are hidden from the world
In Your very manifestation.
Look where I will
I see...
Fakhruddin Iraqi – Everywhere veiled
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Everywhere veiled by Fakhruddin Iraqi English version by William Chittick
and Peter Lamborn Wilson Everywhere veiled by Your own Face You are
hidden ...
In a moment of liminality and transitional space
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It’s compassionate and also merciful to step back and acknowledge how much
we’ve been through this year. Just to be alive as a human being on the
planet r...
The Last Post
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I know. I know. The last post appeared over a year ago. And the post before
that was . . . a year before that. Now it's obvious: this blog has run its
cour...
A runaway lover, text problems, and dinner duties
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Dear Mr. Blue,
I’m a single 51-year-old who’s been enjoying the outdoorsy life in Denver
for the past fifteen years. I have a nice condo, good friends, a...
Vimeo Post
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