The Holy Longing
If the orienteering metaphor of the heart-as-compass doesn’t quite resonate with you, consider another, suggested by the theologian-troubadour Bruce Springsteen: “Everybody’s got a hungry heart.”
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You're walking in the forest. You find a semi-abandoned hut and sit down at the table. After drinking a glass of water and quickly meditating, you open up your notebook. The page is empty.
Thomas Merton, you tell your notebook.
Thomas Merton was a Trappist Monk, it responds - You may have already read his famous book "The Seven Storey Mountain" which
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
“If to be a ‘Romantic’ means to be a man acutely aware of being caught in an existence that denies him the fullness for which he craves, to feel that he is defined by his tension towards something else, by his capacity for faith, for hope, for longing, to think of himself as a wanderer seeking a country that is always distant, but made ever-present
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