The Essence of Desire – July 21, 2020
I did nothave to ask my heart what it wanted,because of all the desires I have ever known just one did I cling tofor it was the essence ofall desire: to know beauty. –St. John of the Cross, Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, p. 314
Essence of God – June 14, 2019
“I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.” –Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias
