"What in life is valuable that comes without risks? We can't even learn to walk without falling down...if we aren't free to fall, to get hurt, get wounded; we can't really live. We can't love. We can't live fully."
~ Tara Brach
~ Tara Brach
Being Human
"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as us unexpected visitor. Welcome & entertain them all!
Even if they'r a crowd of sorrow who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be learning you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. be grateful for whomever comes, because each has beens= sent as a guide from beyond. "
~Rumi
Photograph by Lee Anne Shontere
Acceptance
“Acceptance, [then], doesn’t constitute living in the shadow of eventual death, nor does it entail blithely dismissing the realities of [this ] condition. Acceptance means integrating tedious daily rigors of illness not simply because you are supposed to, but because you recognize there is more at stake in your wellness than your own feelings”
Laurie Edwards in Life Disrupted, p 149
Flower Arrangment by Zoe Toribio 2005
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