How do we endure powerlessness? Can it be embraced as a path to God or is it illusion? Accepting my powerlessness was the path to finding power. Some quotes.
“We do not “come into” this world; we come “out of” it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin.”
~~Alan Watts
“My God was power, and in my powerlessness I realize that I have built upon foundations of sand.”
~~Freidrich Nietzsche
“Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.”
~~Henri Amiel
“There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.”
~~Ecclesiastes 7:20
“Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark.”
~~Thomas Fuller
“Just beneath all negative emotions and feelings are positive ones.
You can bring forth this good instantly if you try.
Everyone can live positively in each moment.
Evil is live spelled backwards.”
~~ME
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so you must know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.”
~~Kahlil Gibran
Peace.
