The Fall is present in us and likewise the Ascent. If I look at birds I see – rather unscientifically – that they are kept aloft by faith and love. I see nothing else – they’ve gained and earned their wings by pure and simple acceptance of the higher power. They rest in the hand [...]
Continue Reading...The savor of life is very much connected with doing the right – the hidden right, not the ostentatious one which acts in order to be seen. But in reality the hidden is spread out around us all the time, like a clear and shining light – like an alternative world. Time itself runs in [...]
Continue Reading...Night opens. Stars pour in. Wind and rain shine as dreams in clear sky will do. Landar © landar 2011. All rights reserved
Continue Reading...So let me come back to you, the stones in my pockets, the vast width of flowering life shining in my eyes, the coughing, shambling animals arriving in my gait. Let me come with the human being rising out of my limbs, ascending to the prayerful spaces. Let me come and welcoming be welcomed [...]
Continue Reading...The uncompromising need for humanity – that is the theme that the final week before Christmas sets before us. We want to be loved and understood; we want someone to take our hand and lead us through the dark, unpredictable world history has bequeathed us. Why me? Why now? Why should I go through this? [...]
Continue Reading...The improbable thing about instincts, in a self-conscious world, is that they have a life of their own. This is one of the basic conundrums of existence. Why was the world made this way, that while consciousness and self-knowledge want to grow, evolve and ascend, our instincts remain zoological? It’s as if we have the [...]
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