St Francis

The saint I love the most is St Francis of Assisi. He’s strongly connected with several of the Spanish caminos. The prayer attributed to him is well known, and is beautiful. He described the wind and the rain as his brothers. He said that “all the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a [...]

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Things Are What We Make Them

“Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of Thought. The Imagination can transcend them and move in a free sphere of ideal existence. Things, also, are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. ‘Where others,’ says Blake, [...]

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The Unknowable Soul Of Man

“In one sense of the word it is, of course, necessary, as the Greek oracle said, to know oneself. That is the first achievement of knowledge. But to recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable is the ultimate achievement of Wisdom. When one has weighed the sun in a balance, and measured the [...]

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A Transparent Summer Morning

“I believe in you, my soul … Loaf with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat … Only the lull I like, the hum of your valvèd voice. I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning … Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass [...]

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