Our real journey in life is interior; it is a matter of growth, deepening, and is an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary for us to respond to that action.” ~ Thomas Merton
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Rumi Doorsill Poem
“Doorsill”
Ordeal. The time of testing is here.
Words like fortitude and valour
mean something among people again.
Old agreements weaken and break.
When the knife reaches bone,
your life must change.
Be glad the refining fire
is around you.
Laugh as you stand on this doorsill.
Out of your dry thorn opens a rose garden.
~Rumi
(Translation by Coleman Barks, with A. J. Arberry and Nevit Ergin)
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Gerald Massey Quote
“They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.” ~ Gerald Massey
Helen Keller Quote
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.” ~ Helen Keller
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