Lovers in the Wilderness

Just imagine. What if deep in the unexplored wilderness of your inner soul lies a secret passage into a place where silence speaks of all there is to know--a place to which we can only point--yet, once discovered, we know it better, trust it more, than any other place we could possibly conceive of or imagine? What if, beyond all you've ever feared, beyond all your doubts, even beyond all your questions, there was a simple answer waiting, waiting for just the right moment, to cut through all you thought you knew to lay, imperceptibly, at your feet the one truth that informs all the others--that right there, within you, was the treasure you've been so desperately seeking? What if you finally understood that this treasure could not be found or created--only allowed--for, in truth, it is already you? Perhaps then, you might just pass by yourself . . . and wonder.

Stephanie Rutt is Director of the Tree of Life School for Sacred Living, and founder of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple. She received her DMin from Andover Newton Theological School, now Andover Newton Seminary at Yale, where she graduated with honors. She is the author of four other books, an interfaith curricula program for the Tree of Life Interfaith Seminary, and has appeared on the TEDx stage.