Category Archives: Julian Cell Blog

  Hope is a condition of your soul, not a response to circumstances in which you find yourself.                                                                                Vaclav Havel

We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future.  The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in difiance of all that is bad around us, is itself … Continue reading →

I have walked that long road to freedom.  I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way.  But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds there are many more … Continue reading →

Pilgrim Blessing May flowers spring up where your feet touch the earth. May the feet that walked before you bless your every step. May the weather that’s important be the weather of your heart. May all your intentions find their … Continue reading →

Three Thomas Merton Quotes I Love: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and the divine is shining through it all the time. We are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the … Continue reading →

“…deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer such terrible evils that it does not seem as though ant good will ever come of them; and we consider this, sorrowing and grieving over it so that … Continue reading →

Dies Irae The day of wrath, that day Will dissolve the world in ashes As foretold by David and the Sibyl! How much tremor there will be, when the Judge will come, investigating everything strictly! The trumpet, scattering a wondrous sound through the … Continue reading →

I don’t know exactly what prayer is, I do know how to pay attention, How to fall down into the grass, How to be idle and blessed. Tell me what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, … Continue reading →

Ordinary Mysticism What the medieval mystics found is our invitation too.  Not to seek out dramatic experience for the sake of dramatic experience.  But to look at what is around us, to look again, to look more closely, to open … Continue reading →