@SophiaCycles The patient waiting never ceases, of course, nor the acceptance such wholeness, enduring, asks of us.
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Copy of tweet here: "...a capacity for mutuality (see Matthew 7:7-11), which implies a basic humility...your life is not about you, but you are about Life. “I live now not I, but Another Life lives in me,” to paraphrase Paul’s poetic words (Galatians 2:20)." Can we begin to see ourselves as only part of the universe, just a fragment of it, not its center? Can we give ourselves to accepting the heat and the rain, the pain and the limitations, the inconveniences and discomforts of life, without setting out to passively punish the rest of the human race for the daily exigencies that come with being human? Can we smile at what we have not smiled at for years? Can we give ourselves away to those who need us? Can we speak our truth without needing to be right and accept the vagaries of life now—without needing the entire rest of the world to swaddle us beyond any human justification for... Joan Chittister
@Explore_Vintage @SophiaCycles That's a good word for it! O'Donohue describes "the persistent courage to be at ease with what is unfinished." The spur of conscious suffering as intrinsic to our acceptance of wholeness. "A steadfast spirit within me." Shantideva: "There is no practice as effective as patience."
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The purpose of apprehending the divine is to maintain the endurance of the one who apprehends with the joy of apprehending. - Abraham Abulafia