If in your heart you make
a manger for Love's birth,
Then God will once again
become a child on earth.
~ "It Depends On You" by Angelus Silesius
I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my 'real' life again at last. That is what is strange — that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone here ...