Sacred Power and Sacred Sense

Reverence for the unknowable strength and mystery

behind the cosmos begins to create our inner lives,

opening our senses, tuning our understanding

to Holy Wisdom (Hokhmah)--She who is

the breath of life from underneath,

the Sense behind all senses,

the one within that grasps meaning

out of the bewildering swirl of existence.

In other words,

the reverence of Sacred Power naturally unfolds

the understanding of Sacred Sense.

--(extract of an expanded translation of Proverbs 1:7  from the second, revised edition of Desert Wisdom, now in preparation)