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Naming the nameless

A seeker once asked his teacher for the true name of God. The teacher began to speak — and could not stop: merciful, formless, fearless, deathless, the giver, the destroyer, the unseen, the ever-present. By dusk the names had become a thousand and still were not finished. “You see,” the teacher smiled, “the One is larger than any single name. So we sing them all, and bow to what lies beyond them.”

Armour of words

A child afraid of the dark was given no lamp by her grandmother, only a verse to say aloud. “The dark has not changed,” the child said the next morning, “but I was not afraid.” “That,” said her grandmother, “is the armour the words become — they do not move the night, they steady the one who walks through it.”

Four times around the Light

Why, a child asked, do the couple walk around the holy book and not simply stand still and promise? Because, came the answer, a marriage is not one vow but a journey of four turns — first learning to live rightly, then to love past the ego, then to loosen one's grip on the world, and finally to rest in shared peace. Each round, the couple circles the Light that will guide all four.