Homing Spirit

<p>I call this book <em>The Homing Spirit </em> thinking of the anguish of not knowing where home is and the hope and joy of the spirit finding its true home. It is possible I learned to have a direction even though you feel lost and don't know where you are. As I understand it coming home for the spirit means coming to peace. My own quest of peace as I tell of it here takes the form of three pilgrimages to Jerusalem. No doubt calling Jerusalem 'the city of joy. Still I did find a way to peace there in conversations with Jews and Christians and Muslims.</p><p>On my first journey there 'a pilgrimage of the mind' as I call it I found peace of mind in the sense of a reality greater than ourselves in going beyond 'I think therefore I am' to the great 'I am' of the burning bush and the Gospel of John. On my second 'a pilgrimage of the heart ' I found peace of heart in restless desire becoming prayer in contemplative insight into the unquiet 'imagination of the heart.' On my third 'a pilgrimage of the soul ' I found peace of soul in living in touch with God in becoming so lonely for God. So lonesome for human beings that I was able to be caught up in life and light and love. As it turned out I found the home of the spirit in a life larger than life. --John S. Dunne</p>