About The Author

Poet And Writer

About Verne Harlan

Discover the personal journey behind these reflections on life, love, and spiritual exploration.

I have lived long enough to discover that life becomes more mysterious the more closely we pay attention to it.

My journey has taken me through many places, vocations, relationships, joys, losses, questions, and unexpected turns. Along the way, I have been a priest, teacher, traveler, seeker, friend, and sometimes simply a bewildered human being trying to understand what life was asking of me.

In recent years, writing has become an important part of that journey. I have written my autobiography. I also write reflections on spirituality, consciousness, compassion, and the mystery of our shared existence. I also write brief three-line poems that I think of as a journal of awareness—small glimpses of ordinary life that sometimes open onto something much larger.

At the heart of my writing is a growing conviction that nothing and no one lives alone.

I have found it necessary to creat a few new words to better share my thoughts. I use the word Mahajiva for the Great Life—the living communion of all jivas, all living souls. Human beings are part of that communion, but we are not its entirety. Animals, birds, insects, trees, flowers, and every form of life belong within it. Each is itself, yet none exists entirely by itself.

Looking back over my life, I became aware of a sense of Holy Presence that had always been with me, usually unnoticed.  I call this sense of Presence the Whisper.

The Whisper does not give me answers. It seems more inclined to awaken questions: What if? Have you noticed? Are you sure? Look again.

I have learned to trust those questions.

This website is a home for the things that have grown from them: my writing, poetry, reflections, and explorations of what it means to live as one small participant in the immeasurable mystery of Life.

I do not write as someone who has found the answers. Increasingly, I am not even sure that answers are the point.

I write as someone who has discovered the joy of wondering.

If something here causes you to pause, smile, question, recognize something within yourself, or look at ordinary life with slightly different eyes, then these words have done what I hoped they might.

Come walk awhile with me.

There is still so much to wonder about. shares the inspiration for crafting poetry and everyday stories that connect deeply with readers. It offers a warm introduction to the author, giving visitors meaningful context about the experiences and heart shaping each piece.

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