Quotes With Meaning
There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the animals adds to the safety and rescue aspects of the ashram. The ashram’s pristine environment along with its celibacy policy and abundance of food is like a Garden of Eden. Like starting over! You forget about sex and spending your whole paycheck on organic apples.
There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the animals adds to the safety and rescue aspects of the ashram. The ashram’s pristine environment along with its celibacy policy and abundance of food is like a Garden of Eden. Like starting over! You forget about sex and spending your whole paycheck on organic apples.
A sanctuary that feels alive keeps people honest.
Tom Hillman sketches an ashram like Noah’s Ark—teeming, protected, purposeful.
When every creature is intact, you witness balance, and that watching becomes a quiet form of safety.
Care for animals trains the body to rescue, and the heart to stand guard without fear.
Pair that with celibacy and plenty of food, and the place turns Edenic: desire softens because hunger and loneliness are met.
Freed from chasing sex or blowing a paycheck on organic apples, attention returns to what nourishes.
Simplicity becomes abundance, not deprivation; the mind gets spacious, the nerves unwind.
This is the reset in Tom Hillman’s Digging for God quote: not escape, but a cleaner way of being among life.
Real safety is belonging to a living world, not buying your way through it.