Marrow of Flame - Poems of the Spiritual Journey by Dorothy Walters

The “initiatory intensity” of Marrow of Flame is powerful because it streams from the work of someone who does not in any way seek the status of a “Master” or “great mystic.” Dorothy’s deepest wisdom—and the deepest wisdom of her poems—is that of an irradiated “ordinariness.” She knows—and her poems show that she knows—that the greatest of all human achievements is to become one’s own—complete integrated divine human self in the core of ordinary life where, as she writes in “Still Life:”

Each movement, each quiet gesture, awakens a rosary in the blood.

For many years I have thought I would be among only a handful of people who knew who Dorothy “is” and who can derive strength and joy from her. Now in Marrow of Flame she will make many new invisible soul-friends, and her profound illumination will go on living, long after she or I are dead, in the deathless Light that all souls live in and somewhere know as their origin.

From the Introduction to Marrow of Flame by Andrew Harvey

At the Very Moment
No matter what you know,
someone is always wanting
to correct you,
to sell you a bill of goods,
from the shop marked
“authority.”
All the “authorities” got
frozen into stone
years ago after the great flood
wiped out original knowledge,
and left behind only these granite shadows.
Reality is always soft clay,
ever shifting and changing
its shape.Fire it into form, and
at the very moment
you are hailing it as
final truth
it will break in your hands.