# Arks of Longing

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Podcast: [Psyche](https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyche-5592447)
Published: 2026-06-18T12:40:01+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quique-autrey4/episodes/Arks-of-Longing-e3kv9ha
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## Resource

Before I jump back into All the Pretty Horses , I wanted to offer a shorter reflection on a line I recently found from Cormac McCarthy’s unpublished screenplay Of Whales and Men : “I believe that we are arks of the covenant… and our true nature is longing.” In this episode, I explore McCarthy’s vision of longing alongside psychoanalysis, James Hillman’s notion of pothos , and Augustine’s famous line that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. But maybe God is not simply where restlessness ends. Maybe God is the restlessness at the core of our being. This is a meditation on desire, nostalgia, melancholy, sacred ache, and why longing may not be something to cure, but something to honor.

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