https://lithub.com/alan-lee-on-illustrating-j-r-r-tolkiens-the-lord-of-the-rings/ #books

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220511-how-nature-and-extreme-wilding-can-re-boot-our-minds #books #wellbeing #nature

Insufficient Instructions: A Brief Meditation on the Jesus Prayer as a Zen Koan | James Ford (patheos.com) #books

This is a wonderful book to have by your bedside. It is divided by topics such as anger, beauty, friendship and heartbreak - just to name a few. The author, David Whyte, writes about these things that have been in the core of the human experience...

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine....

What is it like to feel in your being that you don’t know what you are? What’s it like when you look inside to find out who you are and you don’t find an identity called “you”? What does that open space feel like? Feel it in your body; let it register in the cells of your being. This is real spiritual inquiry. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/190054.True_Meditation #books

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait...