A Word Spoken

(Installation by Tokujin Toshioka - found here)

“When a man hands you a key, this has a certain meaning. A word is a key. A word is an action. Subtract the action, and the meaning is not expressed. Moreover, each man is a word.”

“A thing is not truly said unless the speaker is willing to offer his own blood as surety for the words that come from his mouth or pen. The blood need not flow literally, but the willingness to let it flow is essential for authenticity. In the uncertainties of life, the spilling of our blood may be demanded of us, or it may not. That is not our decision. Our act of choice is to be willing.”

“[Divine meaning] is everywhere—all around us. It can be sparked by the flow through the air of wheeling pigeons; or the colours flowing across the ever-changing sky; or the flow of ideas from one's lips to the ear of another when you know that your word is spoken in the central current and heard in the central current and returned in the central current ... the current of holy fire.”
~Michael O’Brien (from Sophia House)