Contemplation spreads like a quiet pond in the soul and draws into the quiet innermost soul that attentively and patiently...
Water and intimacy are alike: they bear witness to a way of experiencing the world in which I am no...
Trees have been celebrated and admired by poets throughout history because they represent so much of what defines us as human beings. Nietzsche’s words are particularly memorable: “But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the...
What dying tells us about life: The last leaves, already pale on the graphic undergrowth, and the moment of finding...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive...
In a linear system of time, the beginning and end are absolute. If the passage of time is viewed in interconnected yet distinct cycles, the time horizon expands: what was before the beginning, and what will be after the end? This brings into view an intermediate period between two epochs...
Five thousand years ago, the soul directed divine or royal will – feeling and thinking were determined from the periphery....
It is said that we are all equal before God. Standing naked in the temple, we become aware of the...
On the hill above the valley of oaks, I sit in the cold grass, wrapped in my sleeping bag. I like coming up here and watching the ravens play with the wind. Now it is night. I am waiting. But the darkness bereft of moon and stars and the cold...
On Christmas Eve, a child is born into the world. Not only that—a star rises. He is the star that...
That’s the feeling when you walk in the countryside, that feeling of fullness, often also of beauty. Certainly also about...
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