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We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of... →
Indeed, the subtle touches of beauty are what enable most people to survive. Yet beauty is so quietly woven through our ordinary days that we hardly... →
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion... →
When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and... →
Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if... →
Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act... →
Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days to shopping and kill... →
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are... →
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a... →
When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet... →
The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.
If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.