everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
“Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It's in this giving that we actually live.”
-Kodo Sawaki
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.”
-Anaïs Nin
"Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am."
—Parker Palmer, from "Let Your Life Speak"
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr