If you’ve ever had James Hollis stand before you in a room, you’ve never been able to escape the one question he puts forth to challenge our routine, unconscious living: “What wants to enter the world through you?” What is worth your suffering? What allows meaning, purpose, awareness of the Large -- that unfolding energy that is waiting to be embodied in your life -- to have its way with you? Hollis’ latest book, Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life, is like entering a familiar old room, as if we have been here before, yet not really, as if [...]

That piercing shrill tears my grounding. It drives me deep into imagination, my vision of that larger whole where man and beast are one with life, seeking solitude and oneness -- that deep expression of mystery and soul. It pulls me out of my own smallness and opens eternity, whole, within me. You, Hawk, you majestic creature, like a distant church bell ringing out, you hold me prisoner in that moment. Your KEE- EE breaks through the noise of my daily distraction -- of any despair I may be harboring -- and opens up a sky of healing, of earth, [...]