The journey is into the wildness of your greater life. The wilderness is your soul. To merge with your destiny, you must locate, liberate and live what is truly wild. The soul is here to live its joy. The unitiated ego is here to keep things familiar, safe and predictable. Which path will you choose?.
Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
We are wired for attachment
in a world of impermanence.
How we negotiate that tension
shapes who we become.
Robert Neimeyer.
It is heaven itself to take what is given,
to see what is plain
Mary Oliver, Daisies
Sanctuary is wherever I find safe space to regain my bearings, reclaim my soul, heal my wounds, and return to the world as a wounded healer. It’s not merely about finding shelter from the storm: it’s about spiritual survival. Today, seeking sanctuary is no more optional for me than church attendance was as a child.
Sometimes I find it in churches, monasteries, and other sites designated as sacred.
But more often I find it in places sacred to my soul: in the natural world, in the company of a trustworthy friend, in solitary or shared silence, in the ambience of a good poem or good music.
Parker Palmer, Seeking Sanctuary in our own Sacred Places
Merely to say the same thing twice — language is language — how is that supposed to get us anywhere?
But we do not want to get anywhere.
We would like only, for once, to get just to where we are already.
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher, 1889 – 1976
