Such as we are

A Zen Master once said simply, “We are saved such as we are”.  Mindfulness has been such a blessed relief because it has given me a way to hold everything in my life compassionately, just as it is. Over years of practice, almost invisibly, mindfulness has been slowly stitching the old wound of feeling not enough…. As we can bow to the wounds in ourselves and the wounds in others the wounds begin, in their own time, with grace to close. The great way is not difficult if we don’t pick and choose.

Gordon Peerman, Blessed Relief: What Christians can learn from Buddhists about Suffering

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