The Crystal Road
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
~ Howard Zinn
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… So it’s said that the human realm is the very best place to spend time. And why is that? It’s because in the lower realms — particularly the hungry ghost and hell realms — the suffering is so intense and so seamless, there don’t appear to be any gaps.
With the human realm, you have just enough pleasure that you have some relaxation and just enough pain that it spurs you on. So it’s a sort of balance that is the fertile ground for spiritual awakening, for becoming a sane, whole, loving, compassionate, and wise person.”
~ Pema Chodron
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I know the terrible truth of darkness, and I say, bless the darkness, for in darkness I stumbled and fell upon the
crystal road.
After years of doubt, the dark
mind turns again to Light.
In the black mountain of the
heart, I found my way home again.
I am that Light in the darkness.
I am a diamond, a bright secret
veiled in black cloth.