It’s no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things.
An unquenchable fire lies at the center of the human experience. Sometimes it hits us as pain— restlessness, dissatisfaction, frustration, and aching.
At other times it’s felt as a deep energy, as something beautiful, as an inescapable pull, more important than anything else inside us, toward love, beauty, creativity, and a future beyond our limited present.
Desire can show itself as aching pain or delicious hope. What we do with our longings, both the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality.
-Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing
