The Holy Longing

We must long for truth, freedom, loving communion with the silent depths of God.

heart is like a candle longing to be lit. Torn from The Beloved it yearns to be whole again, but you have to bear the pain. You cannot learn about love. Love appears on the wings of grace.

He thinks that he knows many secret things that would make the world happier if he could only get people to believe them. But these secrets are not about high explosives or torpedoes or aeroplanes, or motor-cars that can do the distance between Paris and Berlin at the very shortest record. They are secrets that can only be breathed in music and poe

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

Longing is the vital impulse at the centre of every living being that inclines it to wholeness.