Peter Paul Rubens, The Descent from the Cross, 1612 -1614 Thus the overflow from things pours into you. Just as a fountain’s higher basins spill down like strands of loosened hair into the lowest vessel, so streams the fullness into you, when things and thoughts cannot contain it Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours II, 10 ~ U weet dat ek nie die kruis verstaan nie. As ek doodeerlik moet wees, dan moet ek sê dat ek nie ten volle begryp wie Jesus regtig was of wat die implikasies van sy koms w...
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.