@cecsquared The rarest and most beautiful of pearls are to be found. You'll likely know, of course, that sometimes, just one in a text can be a lifeline for eternity. Here's a link pointing to a few Xian influencers of mine. I pray blessings upon your holy calling. facebook.com/notes/727213324535737/
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From John O'Donohue's Eternal Echoes: There is no one—regardless of how beautiful, sure, competent, or powerful —who is not damaged internally in some way. Each of us carries in our hearts the wound of mortality...Deep inner wounds evade time. Their soreness is utterly pure. These wounds lose little of their acid with the natural transience of chronological time. If we dig into ourselves with the fragile instruments of analysis, we can destroy ourselves. Only the voice of deep prayer can carry the gentle poultice inwards to these severe crevices and draw out the toxins of hurt. To learn what went on at the time of such wounding can help us greatly; it will show us the causes, and the structure of the wound becomes clear. Real healing is, however, another matter. As with all great arrivals in the soul, it comes from a direction that we often could neither predict nor anticipate.
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Copy of tweet here: Countless, of course, are the ways to describe “the fullness of the self come to birth the only way it really can: in labor and trial.” – Chittister. And O’Donohue: “The fire-path of suffering, the final gathering place of all the ideas and intentions of Jesus.”