The Holy Longing

THE TRUTH MUST DAZZLE GRADUALLY

OR EVERY MAN BE BLIND

— Emily Dickinson

it might be difficult, at first blush, to get something seemingly tangible, practical, and readily applicable to one’s day-to-day life from poetry or spirituality. But men die miserably every day from lack of what is found there. In other words, we humans suffer needlessly from an absence of what can be found in poetry and in spirituality.

The longing for a full life glowed in me, or rather the longing for love.