I pick up my sisal bag.
The sand slips softly under my feet.
The time for reflection is almost over.
The search for outward simplicity, for inner integrity,
for fuller relationship–is this not a limited outlook?
Of course it is, in one sense.
Today a kind of planetal point of view has burst upon mankind.
The world is rumbling and erupting in ever-widening circles around us.
The tensions, conflicts and sufferings even in the outermost circle touch us all, reverberate in all of us.
We cannot avoid these vibrations.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)
One Seeker's Story 