May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. - John O'Donohue

Landscape has a soul and a presence, and landscape- living in the mode of silence is always wrapped in seamless prayer.

When he let the loneliness flow, let the dam burst within, something shifted in his relation to his own loneliness.... He became free once he had met the depth of his loneliness, engaged and befriended it. It became a natural part of his life.

Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself. ... It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance.