The wonder of an object is that it is not a thought. A thing is first and foremost itself. An inconsequential pebble picked up on the side of the road has preceded us by anything up to four hundred mi...
The beauty of the imagination is that it can discover such magnificent vastness inside a tiny space. Our culture is dominated by quantity. Even those who have plenty hunger for more and more. Everywhe...
Poetry is the place where language in its silence is most beautifully articulated. Poetry is the language of silence.
If you have everything the world has to offer you, but you do not have love, then you are the poorest of the poorest of the poor.
Human presence is a creative and turbulent sacrament, a visible sign of invisible grace.
Each day, our tribe of language holds what we call the world together. Yet the uttering of the word reveals how each of us relentlessly creates. Everyone is an artist. Each person brings sound out of...
Boris Pasternak said, When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
A horizon is something towards which we move, but it's also something that moves along with us - Hans Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method)
A Blessing May the light of your soul guide you. May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart. May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul....
There is great beauty in the notion of desire. Each of us is a child of the desire of our parents for each other. We are creatures of desire because we are creations of desire. The human heart discove...
The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.
The interplay between farmers and the elements was a poem without words, the echo which would always return to him.The air could hold the breeze of the rain or the wind of warmth to the discerning nos...
The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers within you. Love is absolutely vital for a human life. For love alon...
One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.
On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time is transfiguration. Time minds possibility and make...
ON THE DEATH OF THE BELOVED Though we need to weep your loss, You dwell in that safe place in our hearts Where no storm or night or pain can reach you. Your love was like the dawn Brightening over our...
May I have the courage today To live the life that I would love, To postpone my dream no longer But do at last what I came here for And waste my heart on fear no more.
In the beginning was the dream...In the eternal night where no dawn broke, the dream deepened.Before anything ever was, it had to be dreamed...If we take Nature as the great artist, then all presences...
If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly. Your sense of inner beauty has...