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THE SANCTUARY

Resurrect the Lost Virtue of Humanitas

Crafting music, poetry, art, and writings that unveil the human and the Divine.

Know Thyself.

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Profound poetic, musical, and philosophical explorations into the nature of the Divine.

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A Message to Discerning Students

Through my years of working one-on-one with students with diverse life experiences and from over 15 countries, I’ve learned that what people need—if they want to make meaningful progress—is a sparring partner. They need someone to help them to think about how they think; to serve as a mirror to their words

Simon Drew November 6, 2023

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A Father’s Wisdom

We’re both growing up together.

Simon Drew November 6, 2023

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Oh Mountain

We may at times lose sight of your beauty, but you will never cease to be beautiful.

Simon Drew October 11, 2023

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Come As You Are

A Prayer for Truth

Simon Drew October 11, 2023

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Pairidaēza Suite

Let him now sing, even that we may know ourselves.

Simon Drew October 11, 2023

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Exhausted

I was satisfied.

Simon Drew October 11, 2023

SIMON J. E. DREW

POET | MUSICIAN | PHILOSOPHER

Simon is an Australian poet, musician and philosopher now based in Orange County, California. He is widely known as a populariser of the Stoic school of philosophy, though toward the beginning of 2020, Simon underwent a pneumatic awakening that led him to explore his artistic and mystical nature. What ensued is captured most beautifully in the co-founding of The Walled Garden Philosophical Society, and even more so within the works featured in The Sanctuary Grove.

I’m here to help. I’m here to give, and to receive. I’m here to heal, and I’m here to be healed. I’m here to know, and I’m here to be known. I’m here as I am, just as you are.

CONTACT SIMON

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"If the way is not seeking always better ways, it is not the way."

"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars."

"What is linear is not history but the human spirit."

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

"Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day."

"If I had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born."

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"Beauty is always worth it."

"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

"The Soul that would be touched by beauty must sometimes walk alone."

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in moving towards what will be."

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