Welcome to the Garen ... 2018
conversing with paradise
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Sunday, July 02, 2017
Saturday, January 09, 2016
You are Accepted
Grace
strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us
when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life.
It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual,
because we have violated another life, a life which we loved, or from
which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own
being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of
direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us
when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not
appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for
decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. Sometimes at that
moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though
a voice were saying: "You are accepted. You are accepted,
accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you
do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it
later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much.
Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend
anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!" If that
happens to us, we experience grace After such an experience we may
not be better than before, and we may not believe more than before.
But everything is transformed. In that moment, grace conquers sin,
and reconciliation bridges the gulf of estrangement. And nothing is
demanded of this experience, no religious or moral or intellectual
presupposition, nothing but acceptance.
Paul Tillich 1886 - 1965
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Friday, December 04, 2015
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
Happiness
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
Anam Cara
Anam Cara .... 2015
Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real
Iris Murdoch
Monday, October 12, 2015
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
YOUTH,
large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
Do
you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace,
force,
fascination?
Day full-blown and splendid—day of
the immense sun, action,
ambition, laughter,
The Night follows close with millions
of suns, and sleep and
restoring darkness.
Walt Whitman 1881
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Monday, March 23, 2015
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Surrender ... 2013
Surrender ... 2013
He who surrenders in his fall
Dives into the Source and is healed
Rainer Maria Rilke
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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