santidevi

Come back.  Be in this precious moment.  I realize that I am not where I Am, but 4,576 miles away in Kinsale, in the locus of my longing.  I close my eyes and I am there, walking cobblestones streets, looking out upon the sea, sitting amongst the “standing people” in a forest shrouded in mist. [...]

I begin to find my feet.  Nothing feels entirely familiar at the moment.  I was internal for so long that engaging in the world seems utterly foreign.  It is as though I am here for the first time. The solitude and silence that characterized the duration of my fast, has lent a simplicity [...]

What does it mean to surrender?  
Surrender requires humility, humility requires surrender.  When we stop resisting and judging what “is” we begin to experience the divine intelligence inherent in the phenomenal world. This same intelligence reveals itself within our own nature.  Contrary to what one might theorize this revelation does not inspire arrogance or self [...]