Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Everyone who is attracted to the notion of spiritual practice should read A Path With Heart, by Jack Kornfield. It's just great, chapter after chapter.
*****
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
- Andrew Gide
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book, an empty cup,
On the marble tabletop.
While on the shop and street I gazed,
My body of a sudden blazed!
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed so great, my happiness,
That I was blessed -- and could bless.
- Yeats
*****
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
- Andrew Gide
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book, an empty cup,
On the marble tabletop.
While on the shop and street I gazed,
My body of a sudden blazed!
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed so great, my happiness,
That I was blessed -- and could bless.
- Yeats
