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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
We often fear that letting go means losing something essential: identity, stability, connection, status.
But what we often gain instead is space.
Room to breathe. Room to grieve. Room to grow.
The truth is, you can’t receive what’s next if your hands are full of what’s no longer yours to carry.
Whether it’s a belief, a plan, or a person — some things
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... See more“While grief may look like an expression of pain that serves no purpose, it is actually the soul’s acknowledgment of what we value. Grief is the honour we pay to that which is dear to us. And it is only through the connection to what we cherish that we can know how to move forward. In this way, grief is motion.”
– Toko-pa Turner “Belonging:
Going, coming, sitting, standing, don't attach to anything. Affirming no direction, can there be leaving and entering?
(Master Niutou Farong)
the way is found in the emptiness and the emptiness is fasting of the heart