Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
“The great human error is to reason in place of finding out.” - Simone Weil
“According to Biblical myth, human beings were at one with all the dumb animals of the earth until we ate of the Tree of Knowledge, whereupon we became a race divided against itself. On the one hand, the gift of consciousness brought the glory of independence; on the other, the punishment of separateness. Now we were proud but lonely. The
... See moreI love this sentence by the anonymous fourteenth-century English mystic who wrote The Cloud of Unknowing: “It is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.”
Confusion of selflessness with inner poverty can be especially difficult for women. In our male-dominated culture, a woman can grow up feeling that she doesn’t really count, that she will not amount to much in this man’s world, that a woman’s fate and work is not of value. This powerful conditioning can lead to an identity riddled with depression,
... See moreWe just notice, notice, notice. Then, as mind and body quiet down and the fire burns brighter, out of that will come real thinking and the ability to make adequate decisions. The creative spark of any art is also born in that fire.
the change cycle doesn’t begin when we experience the minor course corrections of life, only when something forces us to let go of our identities. This is a very real and profound form of annihilation.