It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them.
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have.
Rumi·1260In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
Henry David Thoreau·1850Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.
John Muir·1913I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
