Note: shared by Liz Wessel;  an excerpt from "Eternal Echoes" by John O’Donohue.

“The one who dreamed the universe loved circles. There is some strange way in which everything that goes forward is somehow still travelling within the embrace of the circle. Longing and belonging are fused within the circle. The day, the year, the ocean’s way, the light, the water, and the life insist on moving in the rhythm of the circle.

The beauty of the mind is its circle form. Yet the circle of the mind is broken somewhere. This fracture is always open; it is the secret well from which all longing flows. All prayer, love creativity, and joy come from this source. The breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable.

Your body is open physically to the world and the well of your mind flows out of ancient ground.  The face of the well is on the surface; it is a pure and surprising presence. Yet the biography of the well is hidden under eternities of mountain and clay. Similarly, within you the well is an infinite source. As long as you are on this earth, this well will never run dry.

The flow of thought, feeling, image and word will always continue. This is, in a sense, a frightening inner opening-anything can flow through from the distant and unknown mountains. Part of the wonder of living a real life is to make peace with this infinite inner opening.”

-John O'Donohue

These eloquently expressed words by the late John O’ Donohue encourage us to go deeper within. In the photo above, light reflected on the water creates a new image. I am grateful to Erie Chapman, the JSW and readers for the many pathways you have created as openings into a new way of seeing.

 "Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment.

I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive.

 A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened.

Someone speaks a word of gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift.

 And everyone who finds the way to God (Love) becomes my savior, pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he learned is surely mine (and ours) as well. "

~A Course in Miracles

Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel

Photo: San Diego Waterfront by ~liz