Sorrow prepares you for joy.It violently sweeps everything out of your house,so that new joy can find space to enter.It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.It pulls up the rotten roots,so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.Whatever sorrow shakes …
This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival.A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor.Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honourably.He may be clearing you out for some new delight.The dark thought, …
You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered… Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your …
Two selves rise up inside usand are forced apart. After awhilewe no longer notice the pain.We become good childrenand mouth the words we’vebeen taught. Sometimes theones who love axes give us a job. We hate it but we keeptalking about the benefits.When we dream, sometimeswe catch a glimpse of a tinygreen thing struggling upward through …