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Where Spirit Meets The Bone
“But the right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. — Jung
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“Because what calls to us is timeless, the call can come at any time. At each turn in the road our life’s work awaits us; thus our calling keeps calling us no matter our age or position or condition in life.” — Michael Meade
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Compassion
Have compassion for everyone you meet
even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,
bad manners or cynicism is always a sign
of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on
down there where the spirit meets the bone.
~ Miller Williams
My youngest brother often claimed he had never made a wrong move or decision in his life. A question mark appeared over my head whenever he said that. It didn’t seem possible or human. Late in life, in his sixties, he married a woman who encouraged him to steal my inheritance by capturing my mother’s power of attorney so that when she died he could cancel my inheritance for himself, which he did.
He divorced her soon after, saying she had made him “lose his family.” He also disappeared from view…
