6/ "Anguish is the first stop on the road to healing".
The path to wholeness necessarily leads us through powerlessness. If we love - a child, a pet, another person, a place, a flower, a garden, a world - that love will eventually render us powerless -
The path to wholeness necessarily leads us through powerlessness. If we love - a child, a pet, another person, a place, a flower, a garden, a world - that love will eventually render us powerless -
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It is the first step - the step of integrating the knowledge of our own limits.
We integrate it in our body. This is no mere mental exercise. Anguish is a full body experience.
At the beginning of the 100 years war, in 1347, the elders of the besieged city of Calais, aware of the terrible suffering of their city, offered their lives to the English King,
Its said that she feared that their execution would be an ill omen for their unborn child - and so they lived.
Perhaps their anguish pointed her towards the possibility of a kinder world.
(he's more fun than a barrel of monkeys, isn't he? LOL -but don't be discouraged, not all his words have a negative tenor!)
Here is the summary:
the alternative, he suggests, might be facing something squarely; accepting things the way they are; knowing that there is some portion