I Turn A Lot Of Stuff Down

It Is Precisely The Despair Of Our Times That Convinces Me That A Renaissance Is Right Around The Corner.

If You Look Closely At A Tree You'll Notice It's Knots And Dead Branches, Just Like Our Bodies. What We Learn Is That Beauty And Imperfection Go Together Wonderfully.

Compassion Is Not Pity ... Compassion Never Considers An Object As Weak Or Inferior. Compassion, One Might Say, Works From A Strength Born Of Awareness Of Shared Weakness, And Not From Someone Else's Weakness. And From The Awareness Of The Mutuality Of Us All. Thus To Put Down Another As In Pity Is To Put Down Oneself.

Work Should Be In Order To Live. We Don't Live In Order To Work. That Shift In Awareness Is Necessary.

Facing The Darkness, Admitting The Pain, Allowing The Pain To Be Pain, Is Never Easy. This Is Why Courage - Big-heartedness - Is The Most Essential Virtue On The Spiritual Journey. But If We Fail To Let Pain Be Pain - And Our Entire Patriarchal Culture Refuses To Let This Happen - Then Pain Will Haunt Us In Nightmarish Ways. We Will Become Pain's Victims Instead Of The Healers We Might Become.