The human being goes through the present blindfolded.
He can only intuit and guess what he is living.
And then, when the blindfold is removed,
he can look into the past
and see what he has lived through and what its meaning was.
— Milan Kundera
- For A Time I Rest In The Grace Of The World And Am FreeThe fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am… Read more: For A Time I Rest In The Grace Of The World And Am Free
- There’s A Good Possibility That You Won’t Get What You Pray ForThis, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It… Read more: There’s A Good Possibility That You Won’t Get What You Pray For
- I Know You Are There By How Often I Feel Your AbsenceI know You are there by how often I feel Your absence, not at all like abandonment, not wholly like loneliness, which has its share… — Derrick Austin from poem Audience
- To Love Is Not About MergingTo love is not about merging. It is a noble calling for the individual to ripen, to differentiate, to become a world in oneself in response to another. It is a great, immodest call that singles out a person and summons them beyond all boundaries. Only in this sense may we use the love that… Read more: To Love Is Not About Merging
- Infinite Distances Continue To Exist Even Between The Closest Of Human BeingsOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke… Read more: Infinite Distances Continue To Exist Even Between The Closest Of Human Beings