Last night I was outside enjoying the stars, the planet Jupiter, and the evening sky.  Then one shooting star and then another shot brightly and seemingly slowly by.  It was my father’s birthday.  Born in 1921, he would have been 101.  He passed away in 1969 when he was 47 and is still missed.

From Snow Leopard, Lama Govinda, The Way of the White Clouds:

Just as a white summer cloud, in harmony with heaven and earth freely floats in the blue sky from horizon to horizon following the breath of the atmosphere – in the same way the pilgrim abandons himself to the breath of the greater life that … leads him beyond the farthest horizons to an aim which is already present within him though yet hidden from his sight.