Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now.
The conditions are always impossible
Doris Lessing
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Category: Make the most of life
The stories that keep us back
One of the most beautifully disturbing questions we can ask, is whether a given story we tell about our lives is actually true, and whether the opinions we go over every day have any foundation or are things we repeat to ourselves simply so that we will continue to play the game. It can be quite disorienting to find that a story we have relied on is not only not true – it actually never was true. Not now not ever. There is another form of obsolescence that can fray at the cocoon we have spun about ourselves, that is, the story was true at one time, and for an extended period; the story was even true and good to us, but now it is no longer true and no longer of any benefit, in fact our continued retelling of it simply imprisons us.
David Whyte
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Meaning for the New Year
Life has no meaning.
Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.
It is a waste to be asking the question
when you are the answer.
Joseph Campbell
Setting out in trust
We sometimes think we know the way we are going….
A person often meets his destiny on the road which he takes to avoid it
L‘homme rencontre souvent son destin sur la route qu’il emprunte pour l’éviter
Jean de la Fontaine, 1621 – 1695, French poet and writer of Fables
Begin again
Often the message this time of year is to completely re-shape or transform ourselves. This can sometimes mask a kind of aggression towards ourselves and suggest that most change needs to be dramatic. In most cases acceptance, integration and starting over are what is really needed :
That we go numb along the way is to be expected. Even the bravest among us, who give their lives to care for others, go numb, when the heart can take in no more, when we need time to digest all we meet. Overloaded and overwhelmed, we start to pull back from the world, so we can internalize what the world keeps giving us. Perhaps the noblest act is the unheralded effort to return: to open our hearts once they’ve closed, to open our souls once they’ve shied away, to soften our minds once they’ve been hardened by the storms of our day.
Mark Nepo, Hearing the Cries of the World
Not seen but real
There are different wells within your heart.
Some fill with each good rain,
Others are far too deep for that.
Hafiz
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