We have often heard that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This is usually taken to mean that the sense of beauty is utterly subjective; there is no accounting for taste because each person's tast...
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and...
Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are...
Our hunger to belong is the longing to find a bridge across the distance from isolation to intimacy. Every one longs for intimacy and dreams of a nest of belonging in which one is embraced, seen, and...
Only the blindness of habit convinces us that we continue to live in the same place, that we see the same landscape. In truth, no place ever remains the same because light has no mind for repetition;...
Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder.
There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there'sstill a sureness in you, where there's a seamlessness in you, and wherethere is a confidence and tranquility in you. And I think...
When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you return to rhythm with yourself. When you take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before you.
The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partia...
Keep Something Beautiful in your Heart to Survive Difficult Times and Enjoy Good Times.
How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of the earth meets the passion of the human eye, invisible depths strain towards the mirror of the na...
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unima...
To young mind, work seemed to be the price that was gladly paid for the privilege of living so closely with the earth. Work was a real conversation with the landscape. It was not an abuse or raiding o...
To look at something that can gaze back at you, or that has a reserve and depth, can heal your eyes and deepen your sense of vision.
All human creativity issues from the urgency of longing.
1 Somewhere, out at the edges, the night Is turning and the waves of darkness Begin to brighten the shore of dawn The heavy dark falls back to earth And the freed air goes wild with light, The heart f...
If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.
It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone".