There is always something coming to birth
Even when we don’t desire it,
God is ripening.
Rilke, The Book of Hours I, 16
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Tag: Life
Not our fault
It’s a relief to know that pain comes with life
so that we can stop judging ourselves when it arises
Vidyamala Burch
Sunday Quote: speed
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
autumn lessons – what falls away
Ripeness is
what falls away with ease.
Not only the heavy apple,
the pear,
but also the dried brown strands
of autumn iris from their core.
To let your body
love this world
that gave itself to your care
in all of its ripeness,
with ease,
and will take itself from you
in equal ripeness and ease,
is also harvest.
And however sharply
you are tested –
this sorrow, that great love –
it too will leave on that clean knife.
Jane Hirshfield, Ripeness
Compensatory programs
Beginning in infancy (or even before) each of us, in response to perceived threats to our well-being, develops a false self: a set of protective behaviors driven at root by a sense of need and lack. The essence of the false self is driven, addictive energy, consisting of tremendous emotional investment in compensatory “emotional programs for happiness.”
Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
What’s real
We live the given life, and not the planned
Wendell Berry
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