August 4, 2012

"Out of the experience of suffering, an invitation is found.

We learn that life is much riskier, more powerful, more mysterious than we ever thought possible. While we are rendered more uncomfortable by this discovery, it is a humbling that deepens spiritual possibility.

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young"
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~James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life.

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