Ceremony
Charles Eisenstein
“A ceremony, then, is a special kind of ritual. It is a ritual done in the knowledge that one is in the presence of the sacred that holy beings are watching you, or that god is your witness.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound…I go lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things.”
Rain
Thomas Merton
“What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech—”
