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A psalm on acceptance

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tree at nightEven in the midst of great pain, Lord,
     I praise you for that which is.
I will not refuse this grief
     or close myself to this anguish.
Let shallow men pray for ease:
     “Comfort us; shield us from sorrow.”
I pray for whatever you send me,
     and I ask to receive it as your gift.
You have put a joy in my heart
     greater than all the world’s riches.
I lie down trusting the darkness,
     for I know that even now you are here.

Psalm 4, from Stephen Mitchell, A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew.

Sunday Quote: Trust

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Sometimes things happen that we do not understand and we wish were otherwise.  Rumi offers some solace: 

Give up to grace.

The ocean takes care of each wave until it gets to the shore

Rumi

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The two dynamics

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We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. At birth we were awakened and emerged to become visible in the world. At death we will surrender again to the dark to become invisible. Awakening and surrender: they frame each day and each life; between them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and the frailty.

John O Donohue

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Beneath

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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behaviour.

You are not your thoughts

You are beneath the thinker

You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain

Eckhart Tolle

 

Lightness

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Life isn’t as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

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To wait

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To listen to your soul is to stop fighting with life – to stop fighting when things fall apart; when they don’t go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.

Elizabeth Lesser.