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The Beauty We Carry
“At any meaningful turning point in life, we must face our deepest fears in order to grow. And typically a turning point can feel like the worst thing that could happen to us. At one level we are at a collective turning point, we’re at a place where we must stop and listen to the body of humanity, even listen to the voice of the earth. We have to stop despite the fears of the stock market crashing and in spite of the common belief that everything must keep expanding, so that we must avoid all possibilities of a major descent.” — Michael Meade
“It takes so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price… One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.”~ Morris West
The Dalai Lama said that ‘Loving kindness is my religion,’ to make a point that we should not fall into the wisdom tradition of Buddhism and just think it is all from the eyebrows up; that it is only all about mind and mindfulness and insight. There is also wisdom and compassion — like the two wings of a bird. A bird can’t fly with…
