Practice resurrection.
Part of who you are is who you will be.
Wendell Barry, Manifesto
Sunday Quote: all time is eternally present
Tag: Life
Until you go down
I know that any kind of defeat or humiliation is not the American way, but it is surely the biblical way. There the pattern is rather clear, and there is no going up until you go down. Only our strong cultural bias, or a culpable blindness, would allow us to miss this central biblical theme that is everywhere in plain sight.
In the early part of the lovely Joseph saga, where in classic sibling rivalry and jealousy, Joseph’s brothers throw him into the cistern, and then sell him into slavery to assuage any guilt over actually killing him. As always, some “manufactured difference” is used to justify the crime, so they write him off as a “master of dreams”! Oppositional energy never knows what it is for, it just knows what it is against. It is sort of a sad substitute for vision, yet negative people feed on it.
Richard Rohr, Lenten meditations
The difference
We have natural wakefulness, but we also have a lot of confusion.
The point is that the confusion is temporary and the basic nature is fundamental.
Gaylon Ferguson, Natural Wakefulness
friendship with life
I keep yearning for this friendship with life, which is the deeper home I am returned to when I put down all I carry…
Our friendship with life is the ever‑present sanctuary of being that waits beneath our struggles.
Mark Nepo, The Fifth Season: Creativity in the Second Half of Life
From the heart
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you all.
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone
W.B.Yeats, A Prayer for Old Age
The way we travel
Human beings do not find their essence through fulfillment or eventual arrival,
but by staying close to the way they like to travel,
to the way they hold the conversation between the ground on which they stand and the horizon to which they go.
We are, in effect, always close to the ultimate secret:
that we are more real in our simple wish to find a way than any destination we could reach
David Whyte, Consolations
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