Hearth of Solitude

“Run into peace.”― Meister Eckhart

“The deepest things that you need are not elsewhere. They are here and now in that circle of your own soul. Real friendship and holiness enable a person to frequently visit the hearth of his solitude;”― John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Transaction and transformation.
Checking the boxes.
Questioning are they the right boxes.
Shortening the list.
Making space for depth, reflection and joy, delight too.
Doing and being.
Both.
More weight on being.
In the world, not of the world.
Be the carpenter of your life, not a mere tool.
Enter the circle of your soul daily.
Awareness, openness and gratitude to sacred ground of the present.
Spacious beauty.

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”― Franz Kafka