“The longing comes through Yahweh or Allah, Christ or Krishna, no more and no less than it comes through the books and the music; they are equally the divine, or none of them are the divine, and the distinction makes no difference; they are all it.”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house.
Nothing today hasn’t happened before:
I woke alone, bundled the old dog
into his early winter coat, watered him,
fed him, left him to his cage for the day
closing just now. My eye drifts
to the buff belly of a hawk wheeling,
as they do, in a late fall light that melts
against the turning oak and smelts
its leaves bronze.
Before you left,
I bent to my task, fixed in my mind
the slopes and planes of your face;
fitted, in some essential geography,
your belly’s stretch and collapse
against my own, your scent familiar
as a thousand evenings.
Another time,
I might have dismissed as hunger
this cataloguing, this fitting, this fixing,
but today I crest the hill, secure in the company
of my longing. What binds us, stretches:
a tautness I’ve missed as a sapling,
supple, misses the wind.”
“A single, simple longing was enough to damn him.”
Source: Darkness in the Blood
“Because, despite everything, neither want to go but they couldn't stay. Not as they once were.”
Source: The Emperor's Bone Palace
“Where was the magic that would give her wings? That would transport her to a mountaintop? That would change her into a lion? Where was the magic that would help her master this longing?”
“There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in now and an unbreachable gulf between.”
Source: The Haunting of Velkwood
“but minutes soon turned into hours,
hours soon turned into days,
days turned into months,
and a whole revolution in space.
but he never came back”
Source: remains: the silent flames that stay untamed
“At least in my dreams,
you are mine, for a while.”
Source: remains: the silent flames that stay untamed
“Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“She just wanted one last glimpse, one last minute, one last hug.”
Source: A Curse for True Love