“Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky.” Ojibway Saying Our crucial task when in pain or despair is not to let the sour feelings spill into everything, so that we stain our sense of the world. Yet we…
There is nothing to do and nowhere to go. Accepting this, we can do everything and go anywhere. One of the basic notions of Taoism is that the world in all its mystery and difficulty cannot be improved upon, only experienced.We are asked to believe that life in all its…
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” Agnes Repplier If forced to name them, the biggest obstacles to peace are ourselves and the world. Often en route to the truth of my soul, I get stuck in my self…
“When you make the two one, when you make the inner as outer and the outer as inner—then shall you enter the kingdom.” Jesus The goal of all experience is to remove whatever might keep us from being whole. The things we learn through love and pain reduce our walls and…
“Older now, you find holiness in anything that continues.” Naomi Shihab Nye The longer I wake on this Earth, the louder the quiet things speak to me. The more I experience and survive, the more I find truth in the commonalties we all share. The more pain softens me, the…
×
