Wend your way through the corridors of time, not as passengers on a free ride watching the seasons pass; Rather, steady mindfulness quickens the spirit, awakens the soul, and opens the Inner Gate that leads to the great Work so needed in these times. Discover the joy of helping humanity to reverence all Creation, of offering your healing hands in the restoration of planet Earth. Discernment and discipline will cut through impediments to action.
I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact — to borrow from the languages of the saints — to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible.
For a full day and two nights I have been alone. I lay on the beach under the stars at night alone.... Beauty of earth and sear and air meant more to me. I was in harmony it, melted into the universe, lost in it, as one is lost in a canticle of praise, swelling from an unknown crowd in a cathedral. I felt closer to humankind, too, even in my solitude. For it is not physical solitude that separate us from others, not physical isolation, but spiritual isolation.
~ from A GIFT FROM THE SEA by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
