Stunning Juxtaposition

These two posts appeared side by side in my Twitter stream.

"I have come to think of beauty as a core moral value." —@kristatippett
— On Being (@Beingtweets) April 17, 2015

“Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul… Seek solitude.” Yes, please http://t.co/LOHY3hmnvW
— Explore (@Explorer) April 17, 2015

Tippett's remark was found in a live-tweeting stream of a presentation in Louisville during which she had previously said this—

"I experience a longing for depth alongside wholeness." —@kristatippett
— On Being (@Beingtweets) April 17, 2015

My thoughts had already been stoked by the School of Life, which reported a thought of Virginia Woolf—

'You cannot find peace by avoiding life.' - Virginia Woolf
— The School of Life (@TheSchoolOfLife) April 17, 2015

The tension ad the need are incredible and for me very much unresolved—the need to be apart and the need to be involved.