Just a moment...
At other times, you will find sorrow moving through you, like a dark mist over a landscape. This sorrow is dark enough to paralyse you.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
- Through lightheartedness and neglect of our defects we may not feel our soul’s burden, but we often vainly laugh when we have every reason to weep.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
its nuances slip away and shape-change if one tries to pin them down, except when we use poetry, music, dance, or story.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
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by David Whyte
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what
you
Sometimes: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Stunning Meditation on Walking into the Questions of Our Becoming
Absorbed in comfort, we are restless. Drowning in excess, we are hollow. The statistics confirm what our souls already know: despair has metastasized, anxiety has become our natural state, and in the absence of real suffering, we have made a spectacle of our own discontent.
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
A Spanish word for existential anxiety and deep gloom, zozobra also evokes generalized wobbliness: “a mode of being that incessantly oscillates between two possibilities, between two affects, without knowing which one of those to depend on”—absurdity and gravity, danger and safety, death and life. Uranga writes, “In this to and fro the soul suffers
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