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- No one can expect the comfort of heaven who has not taken advantage of a holy sorrow here. If you are to have a contrite heart, enter your room and shut out the world’s distractions (see Is 26:20); as it is written: “Go into your room and reflect on your ways” (Ps 4:4). There in your privacy you will find what is often lost outside.
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
be attached to things that were never yours in the first place? Your attitude should be that you are looking after these things only for the time being, like a housekeeper who lives in her employer’s home and devotedly, loyally, faithfully looks after it, but knows that her own home is elsewhere.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Divine Romance: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 2
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be... See more
Superhuman
the way is found in the emptiness and the emptiness is fasting of the heart
Can I be with my longing? Can I allow the emptiness of what is missing from me remain without trying to fill it with stand-ins and facsimiles? Can I be longing without expectation that it be soothed? Can I, in living with absence, become the presence it is so hungry for?
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
When the threshold is instant, when we step from whatever the clatter is of the external and instantaneously find ourselves somewhere radically new, we are rarely ready.
We hold onto the thoughts and feelings and needs and worries we had a moment ago. Our attention... See more
🚪 Double doors 🚪
The people and places that pass through me have been waiting on my stoop for a very long time.
And I am open.
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Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.