For Michael
So, my good friend, Michael is off to join the Franciscans next week. He is one of the wonderful men I've had the priveledge to call my friend. Lots of memories have been made in our growing seven year (wow!) friendship. Good conversations, lots of laughter, a few tears, hopes and Life have all been part of the journey.
Words that express in ways I’m unable...
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space." ~Pema Chodron
"The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.
Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.
There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves.
-Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain], Dang Dang Doko Dang, chapter 4
“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. Because when you get right down to it, even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully." ~Frances Moore Lappe'
and a longtime favorite:
"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." ~Frederick Buechner
Words that express in ways I’m unable...
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space." ~Pema Chodron
"The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.
Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.
There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves.
-Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain], Dang Dang Doko Dang, chapter 4
“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. Because when you get right down to it, even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully." ~Frances Moore Lappe'
and a longtime favorite:
"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt." ~Frederick Buechner
3 Comments:
Sissy Girl,
As one who has lived almost twice as long as you, I can attest to the fact that this life's journey is and will always be full of questions. Will we find the answers? Who knows? But as long as there is life, there is hope.
Oh, and sometimes the answers we find aren't always the ones we wanted. As long as we keep questioning on some of those things. Others, we should never question. Cause I know what I know that I know. Especially as to how much I love you and your brothers!
Your Momma
Oh, I had to comment here...
"who knows where the trembling stops."
I have come to know that every thougth, every action we are, ripples into the universe to far corners we may never even be aware of. That is why we need to be mindful of everything we ARE.. And we ARE beautiful manifestations of the Divine..
I choose to travel with a heart wide open to all that any of us ARE....always!
Makes for a wonder-filled journey. trust me on that... I am older (and sometimes wiser.lol) than you and your mum combined...
All any of us are IS love. It IS really that simple. Keep writing, girl. Many blessings await you on your journey.
Dana,
It's good to be back here! Thank you for the kind and deep words. I especially liked the one about the bottomless heart.
Thanks for a great last weekend with you, Chris and Grandma.
Take care,
MC
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