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The Guru
“For me trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness,... Read more -
Deities
“... As the desert offers no tangible riches, as there is nothing to see or hear in the desert, one is compelled to acknowledge, since the inner life, far from falling asleep, is fortified, that man is first animated by invisible solicitations. Man is ruled by Spirit. In the desert... Read more -
Widening Circles
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I circle around God, around the primordial tower. I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,... Read more -
Pathway to Silence
“You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration more clearly” Agnes Martin Read more -
Upstream
“Teach the children … Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the... Read more -
Wintering
“When you start tuning in to winter, you realise that we live through a thousand winters in our lives – some big, some small …Some winters creep up on us so slowly that they have infiltrated every part of our lives before we truly feel them … We are in... Read more -
The Great Sand Sea
“If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.” Terry Tempest Williams Read more -
The Embrace of Solitude
“The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze” John O’Donohue Divine Beauty Read more
