#human longing

[leighlim]

There were moments after long suffering when what he wanted most of all (shameful as it might be for him to admit) was to be pitied like a sick child. He wanted to be caressed, kissed, cried over, as sick children are caressed and comforted. He knew that it was an important functionary with a greying beard, and so this was impossible; yet all the same he longed for it.

‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ by Leo Tolstoy / Quoted by Alain de Botton (Status Anxiety - P. 228) 

[worshiphaus]

A desperate heart, clothed in the white of vulnerability, bends low in the company of shadows. the air thickens with unspoken yearnings, as fingers stretch forth, each moment a silent prayer carried on the breath of existence. the longing weighs heavy in the stillness, echoing with the ache of offering what feels so woefully inadequate.

perhaps in this act of kneeling, there lies a tender surrender, a fragile acceptance of what is. beneath the muted hues, a symphony of unfulfilled hopes whispers of connection and the shared human experience. in the sacred space created by silence, our stories intertwine—unresolved, yet deeply resonant with the fragility of our spirits.

[herberthilliard]

The Merging: Finding Meaning in Time, Emptiness, and Connection

My Write: The Merging: One day uneventfully merging into another. Where is the smile? Where is the laughter? Time is unconscious of the day. Time is oblivious to moments. This is because time is an allusion of the finite. The finite mind needs structure and order to properly work. Yet, time has no structure or order because time only exists within the mind of the finite. There is no smile, nor…

The Merging: Finding Meaning in Time, Emptiness, and Connection

[herberthilliard]

The Merging: Finding Meaning in Time, Emptiness, and Connection

My Write: The Merging: One day uneventfully merging into another. Where is the smile? Where is the laughter? Time is unconscious of the day. Time is oblivious to moments. This is because time is an allusion of the finite. The finite mind needs structure and order to properly work. Yet, time has no structure or order because time only exists within the mind of the finite. There is no smile, nor…

The Merging: Finding Meaning in Time, Emptiness, and Connection

[imagesforrenewal]

View from my window

More than anything it was View From My Window

people from around the world sharing snapshots of what they see from places they call home

a sky-blue lake

trees generous and green

a backyard garden cultivated with love

a cityscape at the water’s edge

sunlit vineyards across spreading hills

a still pink desert at dawn

but why this nostalgia to be right there a part of the pictures among those flowers atop that mountain alongside the creek near those rocky ledges almost touching the neighbor’s balcony in town —

it is a need

a profound human longing to merge with what we know completes us.

~Viktoria Vidali

[morninglorydlc]

IF all the gentlest-hearted friends I know Concentred in one heart their gentleness, That still grew gentler till its pulse was less For life than pity,--I should yet be slow To bring my own heart nakedly below The palm of such a friend, that he should press Motive, condition, means, appliances, My false ideal joy and fickle woe, Out full to light and knowledge; I should fear Some plait between the brows, some rougher chime In the free voice. O angels, let your flood Of bitter scorn dash on me ! do ye hear What I say who hear calmly all the time This everlasting face to face with GOD ?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "An Apprehension" (Sonnet - a thought)

[morninglorydlc]

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is...like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything...

Timothy Kellar