We are so self-centred. We bring every experience, all that happens, back to us, me, I. My creations, my world, my people, my job, my status. Somehow, in every conversation we end up at Me. We stroll in the vegetable patch, or in the veld, exclaiming: “Look, Chinese lanterns!” Things can be so different if we look at the floating softness of Oriental lights, whispering under our breaths: “Look, gooseberries and flower-of-an-hour shaking their moorings!” We live in a more-than-human world. George
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.