![]() I learned that I’d never be free from pain but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough. Surviving again and again made me less afraid of myself, of other people, of life. The truth was that I could and did take it all - and I kept surviving. Every time I said to myself: I can’t take this anymore - I was wrong. Jamie Anderson, poet and writer living in the high mountains of Central New Mexico. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and that hollow part of your chest. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. Grief, I have learned, is really just love. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.Īll journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.Īt times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. He connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Renee Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. I had experienced such extreme satisfaction since beginning to make use of this method of meditation that I did not think it possible to experience gentler or more innocent joys in life. There are other meditations which are restful, full of peace for the intellect, without labor for the interior faculties of the soul, and which are performed without either physical or interior effort. I hardly move though really I’m travelingĪll meditation where the intellect is forced to work, fatigues the body. The fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. The bees in the garden rumbling a little, I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. Stronger than thunder where principles are at stake. Softer than the flower where kindness is concerned. Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky ![]() She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.Įmerge renewed at the first signs of spring Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), Canadian author best known for her collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry, beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. So I thank thee, oh, friend, for this gift of thine. ![]() Than gold of the hills or pearls of the sea.įor the luster of jewels and gold may depart,Īnd they have in them no life of the giver,īut this gracious gift from thy heart to my heartįor a beautiful thought is a thing divine, To bloom like a flower on the drearest days With its own rare essence to ever imbue me, That in words well chosen thou gavest to me,ĭeep in the life of my soul it has wrought I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.Ī lovely poem on the power of a kind thought from the author of Anne of Green Gables: The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.Ĭan you catch the Spirit of Life in a jar? That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Attend to your inner health and happiness.
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