Strong weather systems here in Ireland, the UK, and in the US, dominate the news headlines. A reminder that a lot of things are outside our control and an insight into the fact that impermanence is a part of life: calm and storm, darkness and light, cold and warmth.
The capacity to suffer wounding and learn to adapt to it is crucial to the development of self. . . We have wounds, and the clusters of energy that accompany them, because we have a life history. The deeper question is whether we have the wounds or they have us.
James Hollis, The Eden Project.
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Good, thought-provoking quote. Thanks for sharing. I also realise that having wounds enables us to empathise with others who have been similarly wounded in their own lives.
Thanks Jimmy,
I think you are right. Life twists, bends and sometimes uproots us, allowing us develop patience with ourselves and others. Compassion comes from deep within our own experience, our own being, as the Hebrew and Old Testament word rakham reminds us. Best wishes, Karl