Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.
Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything.
that really isn’t you
so you can be who you were meant to be
in the first place.
Paulo Coelho
Tag: Life
Hard to believe
All truth is a paradox.
Grief, friends, time and tears will heal you.
Tears will bathe and baptize and hydrate you and the ground on which you walk. The first thing God says to Moses is, “Take off your shoes.”
We are on holy ground. Hard to believe, but the truest thing I know.
Anne Lamott, 12 Truths I Learnt from Life and Writing
Sunday Quote: We think we know
Every time you make sense out of reality,
you bump into something that destroys the sense you made.
Anthony de Mello, s.j.
A drop of water
Our everyday world may have gotten more restricted; This does not necessarily mean less rich.
A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life.
The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon:
The mind must be full of light.
Hong Zicheng, Chinese Philosopher, 1572-1620
Using wisdom in this present moment
The way of mindfulness is, however, always appropriate to the time and the place, to the way things are in their good and bad aspects.
Then suffering isn’t dependent on the world being good or bad, but on how willing we are to use wisdom in this present moment.
The way out of suffering is now, in being able to see things as they are
Ajahn Sumedho, The Way it Is
Walking in light
A poem for this Easter Monday, traditionally in Italy “Lunedì dell’Angelo”, (Monday of the Angel), a day for going for a walk, remembering the road to Emmaus story in the New Testament
Now you know the worst
we humans have to know
about ourselves, and I am sorry,
for I know that you will be afraid.
To those of our bodies given
without pity to be burned, I know
there is no answer
but loving one another,
even our enemies, and this is hard.
But remember:
when a man of war becomes a man of peace,
he gives a light, divine
though it is also human.
When a man of peace is killed
by a man of war, he gives a light.
You do not have to walk in darkness.
If you will have the courage for love,
you may walk in light.
Wendell Berry, Now you Know the Worst
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