help me to accept the truth about myself -
no matter how beautiful it is!'
Macrina Wiederkehr in Seasons of Your Heart
May we each receive the grace to recognise and accept the truth about ourselves.
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'O God,
help me to accept the truth about myself - no matter how beautiful it is!' Macrina Wiederkehr in Seasons of Your Heart May we each receive the grace to recognise and accept the truth about ourselves.
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A koan:
A student asked, "When times of great difficulty visit us, how should we meet them?" The master replied, "Welcome." Susan Murphy in "Minding the Earth, Mending the World" suggests that the 'welcome' is extended without discriminating worthy from unworthy. Discover welcome everywhere ... freely available in just what is. May we be richly blessed as we extend a welcome. Emily Dickinson wrote,
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." Aging is often a matter of perspective. Our quality of life is often a matter of perspective. May our perspective bring newer blessing every day. I think what I really need is encapsulated in this quote from the Dalai Lama:
"The planet does not need more 'successful' people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with 'success' as our culture is the set." How about you? May we each be blessed with healing, restoration, stories, love and courage. "Never doubt in the dark,"
suggests Arne Petersen, "what God said in the light." My the dark be a blessing in our lives. "Silence", says Eric Maisel, provokes deep responses.
Quiet your mind. Then beauty will rise up in you." May you be blessed with both quiet and beauty. Basho wrote,
"I don't know which tree its coming from - that fragrance!" Sometimes we do not know where our joys, our pleasures, our peace of mind, come from. I think memory is one of the sources of delight. This simple, unadorned, prayer flag is made from a remnant of the fabric I used to make my daughter a skirt. I smile when I see it, feel it, caress my cheek with it. The fragrance of memory is sweet. May your day be blessed with the sweet fragrance of memory. An old Mayan blessing:
"Long life, honey in the heart, no evil, and thirteen thank yous." May this blessing be ours. Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth Departs, so life at every stage, So every virtue, so our grasp of truth, Blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor, Be ready bravely and without remorse To find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force For guarding us and helping us to live. Serenely let us move to distant places And let no sentiments of home detain us. The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces. If we accept a home of our own making, Familiar habit makes for indolence. We must prepare for parting and leave-taking Or else remain the slaves of permanence. Even the hour of our death may send Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces, And life may summon us to newer races. So be it, heart: bid farewell without end. Hermann Hesse May we be blessed at every stage: every beginning and every ending. We are all on a path:
physical emotional spiritual intellectual. May your path be filled with wonder and grace. |