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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.
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Superhuman
sacred space is vacated space, a place of emptiness and flow.
Alan Lew • Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life
Going, coming, sitting, standing, don't attach to anything. Affirming no direction, can there be leaving and entering?
(Master Niutou Farong)
This haiku is a deep reflection on the truth of reality, which is by nature transient and fleeting. When we are unable to accept this truth we become distressed. However, recognition of this truth could at least bring a sense of poignancy to all of us human beings, who inevitably experience and witness it. There is even an aesthetic of this recogni
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