Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

Myths and fairy tales are profound communicators of wisdom in very subtle ways.

Teresa of Avila.

we’ll be lying down in the earth for about fifteen million years, and we have a short exposure. I feel that when you recognize that death is on its way, it is a great liberation, because it means that you can in some way feel the call to live everything that is within you.

Maybe it is the role of the artists and mystics to attend to the seeming emptiness about us and find incredible riches there.

here? What is buried under the gleaming surface? Because every image is partial, and most images have a great falsity in them.

The great myths are universal stories about dimensions of the gods, of ourselves and of nature.

You can actually go back within yourself to great things that have happened to you and enjoy them and allow them to shelter and bless you again.

we are born into a new world where space and time and all the separation and all the difficulties no longer assail us.

A tree grows up and grows down at once and produces enough branches to incarnate its wild divinity. It doesn’t limit itself—it reaches for the sky and it reaches for the source, all in one seamless kind of movement. So I think landscape is an incredible, mystical teacher, and when you begin to tune into its sacred presence, something shifts inside

A good question is something that has incredible grace and light and depth to it. A good question is something that always, in some way, plows the invisible furrows of absence to find the nourishment and the treasure that we actually need.