I want to know
if you are prepared to live in a world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand.
β David Whyte, 'Self-Portrait' [from ππͺπ³π¦ πͺπ― π΅π©π¦ ππ’π³π΅π©]
I want to know if you are prepared to live in a world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand. β David Whyte, 'Self-Portrait' [from ππͺπ³π¦ πͺπ― π΅π©π¦ ππ’π³π΅π©]
Nothing looks the way I thought it would look. Some of it has been more delightful than I expected, much of it has been more heartbreaking than I ever planned for β or thought I could survive. Yet here I am, living out the story that I am, at best, co-creating in collaboration with mysterious and invisible forces. It has been, at every turn, intere... See more
LETTERS FROM LOVE β With Special Guest Pico Iyer!
... See moreOur humanness is not given to us. Instead, it requires our participation in its construction and realisation, which often comes about through collapse or calamity. We rummage through the chaos of our inner worlds, through our multitude of selves, to discover what we are, what we wish to be, and our authentic relationship with the world. This proces
It is a terrible and terrifying thing to know what you want to be and then realize youβre the only one standing in your wayβto want with every fiber of your soul to be someone different, to escape the βyouβ youβve made of yourself, only to fall back into the self you hate, over and over and over again.
James K. A. Smith β’ On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Iβve had to mourn the loss of parts of myself that once served me, while also reconnecting with other parts of myself that I had suppressed.