The Vital Force Archive

A three-line pyramid poem by Jo Trautmann of Georgetown, Texas, moving from the softness of a garden to the stillness of shade, where serenity surrounds solitude.

Geraldine Kline recounts a student who, after his first class, organized all the papers on his office desk, did the same at home after the second, and waited to see what the third would bring.

Sr. Alice Holden recounts the Seijaku Course with Justin Stone, where she confronted her own resistance to change, then led morning movement for 80 retreatants and hundreds of women at Women-Church.

Katy Buss writes after two years of regular practice that T'ai Chi Chih has not fixed two bothersome problems, and that the only thing in her control is whether she practices.

Robert A. Buss compares two evening practices, one flowing and centered, the next fragmented and frustrating, and concludes that good practice is simply practice that gets done.