"Every living thing
has preferences."

~ Jim Dollar

Daron LarsonApril 17, 2018Jim Dollar, poetry, yearning, wanting, life, practice, contemplative, contemplation, faith, quietComment

A Constant Pestering

I want, I don’t want.
How can one live with such a heart?

~ Margaret Atwood

Daron LarsonAugust 6, 2015vulnerability, love, yearning, desire, poetry, Margaret AtwoodComment

We Don't Want to Want

"We cannot receive love, however, if we are not open to the raw and tender experience of wanting it. Suppressing or denying desire shuts down our openness to receiving nourishment, and thus only intensifies our hunger."

~ John Welwood

How the Earth Sees Us

How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of the earth meets the passion of the human eye, invisible depths strain towards the mirror of the name.

In the word, the earth breaks silence. It has waited a long time for the word. Concealed beneath familiarity and silence, the earth holds back and it never occurs to us to wonder how the earth sees us. Is it not possible that a place could have huge affection for those who dwell there?

~ John O'Donohue

We Forget

"We are not at home in the world because we imagine it is as we have become, full of nothing but yearning and forgetting and hoping for something so raw we can't describe it."

~ Simon Van Booy

Daron LarsonDecember 22, 2014Simon Van Booy, home, yearning, belonging, Lorenzo Mattotti, stories, childhood, growing up, aging, uncertainty, confusionComment

No Less Real

"So much of what we live goes on inside–"

Daron LarsonNovember 1, 2014Dana Gioia, grief, death, memory, communication, Day of the Dead, secrecy, yearning, self/other, riskComment

Some Unprotected Desire

Daron LarsonApril 18, 2014Dubai, Edward Hirsch, consumerism, economic system, greed, grief, happiness, society, yearningComment

Eating Light

Daron LarsonApril 4, 2014Katie Peterson, eating, light, nature, poet, poetry, self, transformation, yearningComment

How Little it Takes

Daron LarsonFebruary 9, 2014Wendell Berry, desire, home, mind, nature, poetry, seasons, stillness, wonder, yearningComment

stand helplessly

Daron LarsonSeptember 19, 2012Björk, E.E. Cummings, broken heart, love, poetry, yearningComment

Never Any More

Daron LarsonSeptember 15, 2012Walt Whitman, creativity, emptiness, perfection, poetry, present, time, yearningComment

Any Other Name but Breath and Light

"What is there beyond knowing that keeps
calling to me? I can't
turn in any direction
but it's there."

~ Mary Oliver

Daron LarsonJuly 2, 2012Mary Oliver, confusion, learning, logic, mystery, nature, poetry, uncertainty, wonder, yearningComment

Relentless Search for the Next Magical Something

Daron LarsonJune 19, 2012BBarry Michels, Phil Stutz, consumerism, fantasy, freedom, illusion, liberation, psychology, yearningComment

To Create and Thrive from that Place Where all Feelings Reside

"We naturally long to sequester our doubts and fears, to disavow pain and worry. Unfortunately, to vanquish doubt is to leave the domain of the human being. Conversely, to embrace both one’s doubt and faith, one’s fear and courage, is to relate to the totality of the human experience."

~ Dennis Palumbo