Message from Henry: Wound and Blessing
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Message from Henry: Wound and Blessing
The First Noble Truth is that all of us have suffering in our lives. None of us can escape from it. The Second Noble Truth is that we can identify the causes of our suffering. The Third Noble Truth is that we can put an end to our suffering and that healing is possible. Finally, the Fourth Noble Truth is that there are paths to free us from sufferi
... See moreThe sacred wound is a necessary and valuable part of the journey of being a human being. It opens us up for something different to happen in our lives. We need to stop categorizing every event as either a blessing or a curse, good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant, and accept every circumstance as a way of deepening ourselves.
The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual path before we get some sense of the wound of the human condition, and this is precisely why not a few abandon a contemplative practice like meditation as soon as it begins to expose this wound; they move on instead to some spiritual
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