When I want to read my book but am told to answer the door.
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When I want to read my book but am told to answer the door.
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Day 15. Prophet
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“Many who are working among the suffering…thought they were going as the benefactors but they invariably found themselves being helped and liberated themselves.”
(Just one of the insights from this book that resonates with me. This little book is one of my favorites as well as the book of Job in the Bible is my favorite.)
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You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half the truth.
You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean
by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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You see we like our illusions, we like having enemies, and we are quite accustomed to our wars and prejudices, as much as we insist the contrary. They make us feel morally superior, even heroic.
pickI read Richard Rohr a lot, but he just has a refreshing insight into many things that government, institution, religion and society have so poorly mishandled.
The reality is that this book is an essential read for our current day, but it is not filled with the whimsical romanticisms that pull our minds away into La La Land, it is a very rare and eye-opening look of honesty at the world and at the self.
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