Richard Payment, For Want Of Wonders Quotes

I remembered Patel’s words, “Surrender is not giving up, it is worship.” “Show me how to step, ” I said, “so that it pleases you. Make me one with you and also this land. Be with me.

It comes back all at once: a woman on a beach, a tree, a wind that calms, a rain that cleanses, but does not wet.

His youth carried his words and lit the room with an optimism. “India is like our home, ” he said, “our spiritual home. Even before we get here there was that feeling.

Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in silence, watching our steps, heads bowed. We were in a temple.