"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Storm...

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence. So you live day to day and enjoy what you have and do not worry. You lie and hate it and it destroys you and every day is more dangerous. But you live day to day as in a war.”
~ Ernest Hemingway



“People who fail to do it right, by even their own definition of right, are those who often break through to enlightenment & compassion.”
~ Richard Rohr

Certain people enter your life as a storm and a storm is exactly what you needed at the time they entered. To others (those on the outside, peering in, judging) the storm looks perverse, immoral, insubstantial. But, the reality is that the one, the other creating the storm is the most needed, most worthy one in your life at that precise moment. And, you become more alive, more vibrant because of the storm.



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