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What world do you want?

We have made simple goodness seem somehow unsophisticated. Compassion is mocked as weakness. Kindness is treated as naivete. And yet John Donne knew four centuries ago what we seem determined to forget: “No man is an island.” The world we live in is made from the daily moral choices of ordinary people — and the world most of us long for is still within reach, if only we would have the courage to choose it.

There are famous writers that deserve to be shared, and this poet is definitely one of them.

WHY MONKS CHOOSE SILENCE

by Daniel Skach-Mills To step out, once and for all, from under the sagging, word-weary roof of the mouth. To be the vast, unfeathered nest of emptiness out of which sound arises, and into which it lands. To live like the open ear of a furrow listening for a seed— loves infant hand knocking from inside, wanting in to be the world. daniel skach mills DANIEL SKACH-MILLS is an award-winning poet whose poems have appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies including The Christian Science Monitor, Sojourners, and Open Spaces. His books include: The Hut Beneath the Pine: Tea Poems, In This Forest of Monks and The Tao of Now.