About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Lectio Poetica No. 11 When I Was the Forest

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

For a write-up on Lectio Poetica click HERE. When I Was the Forest When I was the stream, when I was the forest, when I was still the field, when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing, when I was the sky itself, no one ever asked me Read more [...]

A Feather Weightier than the Daily Bombs

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

I haven't posted much of late as I'm busy writing other things. But I came across this by accident and it moved me. So, I thought I'd pass it on, in case you haven't seen it. Sometimes we find the best things in really strange places. Like on American Read more [...]

Hangin’ with Hafiz

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. ~ Hafiz ♣ GOODPEOPLE ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION ONLINE? Would Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Spiritual Practices

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Once, Brother Weeps began a teaching this way: I received a letter the other day and my pen friend asked: "What is the purpose of spiritual practices?" So, I wrote back. This is what I told her. There are a few basic things most, if not all, authentic Read more [...]

Listening for the Questions that Are Not Meant to Go Away

Posted on June 6, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked. And there is a far worse anxiety, a far worse insecurity, which comes from being afraid to ask the right Read more [...]

Sometime in Your Life ~ A Life-Line

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these. ~ Siddhārtha Gautama ♣ GOODPEOPLE Read more [...]

What’s the Buzz — Tell Me What’s a-Happenin’

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We’re only as sick as our secrets. ~ A saying from Alcoholics Anonymous "WHAT'S THE BUZZ? Tell me what's a happenin'" go the lyrics to a song from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. Well, there's a lot of buzz in the air and action on the ground Read more [...]

A Life-Line

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line comes from an interview with Phyllis Cole-Dai, writer and social artist. One Thing On Your Bucket List? No list. I live in the bucket. ♦♦♦Phyllis Cole-Dai is the author of nine books including the historical Read more [...]

My Sunday Mo(u)rning Rant*

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Experience shows humans tend to care for what we know and love, those we know and love. So the summons to life, the summons from and for life, the summons for survival -- no longer ours, but that of our children and grandchildren and the well-being Read more [...]

BLESSED BE All the Mothers (and Others)

Posted on May 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

A PRAYER FOR MOTHERS BLESSED BE all the mothers of the world those who have died, those alive, those yet to come who brought, bring, and will bring life into the world who nurture, cherish, and support their children and model the maternal love Read more [...]

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