If you surrender anger to understanding, fear to acceptance, and hate to love, the universe will respond by bringing you more of what you focus on. When you shift from the intellect to the spirit, you are bound to find a new way of life. This will be a life dedicated to peace, joy, and compassion.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
If you Surrender Anger to Understanding
When you Choose to Love Someone Who is Damaged
When you choose to love someone who is damaged, you take on the weight of their past, their pain, their guilt. You must be strong, you must be patient. You can stop the bleeding and help them scar over. But they will always, always be a little broken. If you can handle that, if you can accept the dents and the cracks. If you can get them to trust you, you will never find a better ally than one who is damaged. Above all else, they know about survival. After all, they are still here… wondering if someone like you will ever love them
~ Shayne McLendon
Sacred Catastrophe : The Power of Initiation
“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.” ~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Things fall apart. Life is less about receiving flowers and rainbows and sunshine and more about how well you navigate the thorns the storms and the darkness. On a long enough timeline, everything you know is swallowed by entropy. Sacred Catastrophe is inevitable. But so what?
As Theodore Rubin said, “The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
So, making the best of what you have, while also appreciating it, is a sound and healthy strategy. This is the epitome of sacred catastrophe.
The opposite of entropy is exergy: improvement, increase, rise, aggregation. Exergy is a combination property of an individual with his/her environment because it depends on the state of both the individual and the environment.
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Initiation Painting by Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff
People Say That What We’re All Seeking is a Meaning for Life
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
May Your Heart Heal
May your heart heal. May your past no longer block your view of the present. May you breathe again, laugh again, rest again, live again. May it be so.
~ Thema Bryant Davis
