Posted in favorite things, wonder on March 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“For what is real and true look at these stones, this bread, the spring of water, those sea waves, this horizon with its pure untroubled line. Only perceive purely and the spiritual and the material world vibrate as one. The power that saves is infinitely simple and infinitely close at hand.”
Iris Murdoch
Posted in favorite things, wonder on February 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
May your trails be crooked,
winding, lonesome,
dangerous, leading to the most amazing
view.
May your rivers flow without end,
meandering through pastoral valleys
tinkling with bells,
past temples and castles and poets’ towers
into a dark primeval forest where tigers
belch and monkeys howl,
through miasmal and mysterious swamps
and down into a desert of red rock,
blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and
grottos of [...]
Posted in Dag Hammarskjold, Michael Mayne, favorite things, wonder on January 27, 2007 | No Comments »
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.”
Dag Hammarskjold, Markings
quoted in This Sunrise of Wonder by Michael [...]
Posted in favorite things, wonder on September 25, 2006 | No Comments »
People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering.
Saint Augustine
