At my age, 52, we shed leaves in the autumn of our desires
then die knowing we have lived.
then die knowing we have lived.
The most difficult thing that young people and all people with difficulties need to overcome, is the passage from their self to their community: the community of humanity. Their smaller community might be broken up in pieces like most are today but if they are able to bridge their lives from that reference to the one beyond, that of mankind, and can solve within themselves the shortcomings of their smaller community, they will remain alive and not just be spent by the circumstances.
No matter how young and how difficult it all looks, life is a marvelous adventure. Never give up: trust yourself and this wide world for as long as you live, all storms pass.
Getting help from the outside is one need but helping one’s self from the inside is equally necessary. Sometimes all I can do is sit and wait for the storm to pass and when it passes, it feels good to have carried that much water! The wonderful thing about that, is finding that the inside is as huge, as exciting and as alive as the outside and that in fact the outside is just a glimpse of what the inside looks like!
If we wonder with delight at the outside, when we take a trip to the inside, we disappear as the wonder gives life to itself in our self.
Life is no less sweet than we allow it to be when we sit there and let it express itself through us. We are each its small miracle, like snowflakes in such water.
Nothing is ever wasted. Don’t be afraid of the hard times and the loses. When we process our loses we give birth to our lives like the earth gives better crops with the dung of its inhabitants. We are all dung processors in the universe! It is through such suffering that the stars are born!
Don’t be afraid no matter how hard it looks. Don’t turn against others no matter how little they care about you. They are suffering much more than you are and haven’t taken that step towards themselves or ourselves.
Don’t ever become too “professional” if that implies not caring for others even if you have an act of kindness. Being human cannot be replaced by no matter what act. You are or you’re not and most of us are in the process of becoming. Enjoy the process! Let your self not be and let yourself be. Taste them both so that when you chose to be yourself you will never turn back.
Life is a ride for the will. It is like a wild horse, always beautiful, always wild, especially when you tame it! In that wild will that we each carry inside, lives our self. Become a better rider so that you can ride the wildness; never tame its miraculous gift.
Since I’m already so into it tonight, let’s talk about love! Love as I’ve known it, dies. You can shout and scream as I have but it still dies and when we pick up its corpse and lay it in the ground like a Jesus on the cross, it resurrects like a Jesus on the cross. Then there is no difference between love and life. Let death live itself out so that life can die itself within and we can continue to be.
We cannot talk about love without talking about death. Death is to life, like the inside of the bag to the bag. Whenever we turn a bag inside out, we are “playing” with the metaphor of life and death! They enjoy themselves playing in our space-time world. Death is that simple: always with us, in the “inside out” of our lives.
It is always good to write for you!
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