"Ignorance is not knowing anything and being attracted to good. Innocence is knowing everything, and still being attracted to the good."
It is said that all that you are seeking is also seeking you, that if you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time. Once it is here, don't move away. Rest. See what happens next.
In Spanish, the word inocente is understood to mean a person who tries not to harm another, but who also is able to heal any injury or harm to herself.
La inocente is the name often given to a curandera healer, one who heals others of injury or harm. To be an innocent means to be able to see clearly what is the matter and to mend it. These are the powerful ideas behind innocence. It is considered not only an attitude about avoiding harm to others or self but also an ability to mend and restore oneself (and others!). Think of it. What a boon to all the cycles of loving.
A turning point for a person is when one allows oneself to love "even though"...even though one has pangs, even though one is nervous, even though one has been wounded previously, even though one fears the unknown.
There has to be at some point in a person's life a time when they will trust where love takes them, where they fear more being trapped in some dry cracked riverbed of a psyche than being out in lush but uncharted territory. When a life is too controlled, there becomes less and less self control.
For love to thrive, a person must trust that whatever will be, will be transformative.
In fairy tales, tears change people, remind them of what is important, and save their very souls. Only a hardness of heart inhibits weeping and union. There is a saying from the Sufi long ago, a prayer really, asking God to break one's heart: "Shatter my heart so a new room can be created for Limitless Love."
----excerpts from Women Who Run with the Wolves.
This is a very very excellent book. It's so inspirational and has helped me alot.
It is said that all that you are seeking is also seeking you, that if you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time. Once it is here, don't move away. Rest. See what happens next.
In Spanish, the word inocente is understood to mean a person who tries not to harm another, but who also is able to heal any injury or harm to herself.
La inocente is the name often given to a curandera healer, one who heals others of injury or harm. To be an innocent means to be able to see clearly what is the matter and to mend it. These are the powerful ideas behind innocence. It is considered not only an attitude about avoiding harm to others or self but also an ability to mend and restore oneself (and others!). Think of it. What a boon to all the cycles of loving.
A turning point for a person is when one allows oneself to love "even though"...even though one has pangs, even though one is nervous, even though one has been wounded previously, even though one fears the unknown.
There has to be at some point in a person's life a time when they will trust where love takes them, where they fear more being trapped in some dry cracked riverbed of a psyche than being out in lush but uncharted territory. When a life is too controlled, there becomes less and less self control.
For love to thrive, a person must trust that whatever will be, will be transformative.
In fairy tales, tears change people, remind them of what is important, and save their very souls. Only a hardness of heart inhibits weeping and union. There is a saying from the Sufi long ago, a prayer really, asking God to break one's heart: "Shatter my heart so a new room can be created for Limitless Love."
----excerpts from Women Who Run with the Wolves.
This is a very very excellent book. It's so inspirational and has helped me alot.
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mamabunny:
haha. youre online! What are you doing?!?!?!
priss:
I totally understand. and it will be ok. all of it. i would love to see you soon