Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sailing to the moon


New Year's Eve - Blue Moon Eclipse in Cancer, 2009
Photo by Teila Rifa

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. —Thomas Merton