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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” — James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room Reflection In the literature of the hero’s journey — from Odysseus to the Prodigal Son — the departure is dramatic but the return is sacred. The hero leaves the known world, encounters the unknown, is
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“The body is not a thing we have, it is a thing we are.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception Reflection The great error of Western spirituality — from Plato through Descartes and beyond — has been the separation of body from spirit, the insistence that the flesh is something to be transcended,
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“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pine Reflection In the developmental psychology of Erik Erikson, the seventh stage of human life is characterized by the tension between generativity and stagnation. Generativity is the concern for
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom and our power to grow.” — attributed to Viktor Frankl Reflection In relational psychoanalysis, there is a concept called “the third” — the entity that exists between two people in relationship, which is neither one nor the other
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“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” — T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets Reflection This is the final week and the first week. In the cyclical understanding of time that most ancient traditions held — before the
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“I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and mercy.” — Hosea 2:19 Reflection A covenant is not a contract. A contract is transactional — I give this, you give that, and if either party defaults, the agreement dissolves.