The problem is not entirely in finding a room of one's own, the time alone, difficult and necessary as that is. The problem is more how to still the … - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

seems to me the most beautiful thing on earth, perhaps because it is unearthly, and the touch of God in us: the miracle of mercy, the unexpected, the arms of the prodigal son’s father, the ravens bringing food in the night, the cup running over.

It doesn't matter that it can't last, that we don't find it more often. To know that there is such perfection, that there has been such perfection — it is worth living for. It exists. It has been — it is. One can contemplate it and feel complete peace.

I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.