"Many of us in this time have lost the inner substance of our lives and forgotten to give praise and remember the sacredness of all life.
But in spite of this forgetting, there is still a part of us that is deep and intimate with the world.
We remember it by feel.
We experience it as a murmur in the night, a longing and restlessness that we can't name, a yearning that tugs at us.
For it is only recently, in earth time, that the severings of the connections between people and land have taken place.
Something in our human blood is still searching for it, still listening, still remembering. Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal wrote, ' We have always wanted something beyond what we wanted.'
I have loved those words, how they speak to the longing place inside us that seeks to be whole and connected to the earth.
This too is the place of beginning, the source of our living."
Linda Hogan (Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World)
19 Comments
Close this window Jump to comment formSplendid picture!
Léia
October 24, 2013 at 5:01 AM
Oh, wow --this took my breath away. Gorgeous!
October 24, 2013 at 7:10 AM
beautiful way to start the day!
October 24, 2013 at 7:51 AM
So, so beautiful!
October 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM
Love the light in this! Such an amazing glow!
October 24, 2013 at 9:13 AM
that is a stunning shot
October 24, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Good morning, Dear Heart.
October 24, 2013 at 10:34 AM
Gorgeous photo, meaningful words... wonderful post!
October 24, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Eerily similar to my front yard... gorgeous light and image.
October 24, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Powerful words...and this photograph is soul soothing xo
October 24, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Beautiful post! Fabulous photo :)
October 24, 2013 at 12:26 PM
I guess all the asphalt and concrete in our cities make it hard to connect to the paved over earth. Then we should look upward like in your photo.
October 24, 2013 at 12:39 PM
I think I'm tethered to earth . . . it call to me every morning. Beautiful words and gorgeous photo!
October 24, 2013 at 3:21 PM
Gorgeous!
October 24, 2013 at 6:05 PM
What a beautiful photograph!
October 24, 2013 at 8:20 PM
Gorgeous photo and passage. This really touched me. I feel that restlessness.
October 24, 2013 at 10:28 PM
Gorgeous morning shot of the sky.
Judith
October 25, 2013 at 8:14 AM
Gorgeous photo and lovely thoughts.
October 25, 2013 at 11:34 AM
Wow this is just gorgeous!!!
October 27, 2013 at 7:22 PM