Mark Scandrette

“The sunshine sooths the bruises of my psychic ache. I could spend a thousand moons here before I miss the sweet embrace. My joys and pains are solitary. And even as the healer holds me I am plotting my escape. “

“Imagine searching all the wonders and tragedies of human experience only to find yourself longing for what is still beyond.”

“Hope can be understood as well by the blind beggar as the religious scholar. Respecting the simplicity of the message  and the humility of the simple, I don’t want to romanticize the exotic path of the other. Every person must discover the way in which the message of hope destroys and liberates their own self. This is an equal opportunity reality. If the message of hope can only be received and embraced by the poor, then I am poor—because I am in desperate need of a reality of hope that breaks into the private dungeon of my solitary void of meaning and home.”

“We create a myth about ourselves that we fulfill by every action and we shatter these archetypes when they weigh upon us.”

“I admire the integrity of those who live fully convinced of who they are.—Though some of us are, who we truly are, by being restless and slippery, unsettled, experimental, fragile and flexible in our views.”