"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



Sunday, March 11, 2012

Anne Lamott on Music, Love and Beauty...


“It might help if I go ahead and tell
you what I think is the truth of your
spiritual identity…Actually, I don’t
have a clue. But I know that you feel it
best when you’re not doing much –
when you’re in nature, when you’re
very quiet or, paradoxically, listening
to music.
I know you can feel it and hear it in the music you love, in the base line, in the harmonies, in the silence between notes: in Chopin and Eminem, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, Bach, whomever. You can close your eyes and feel the divine spark concentrated in you….You are Spirit, you are love, and even though it is hard to believe sometimes you are free. You’re here to love, and be loved, freely. If you find out next week that you are terminally ill – and we’re all terminally ill on this bus – what will matter are memories of beauty, that people loved you, and that you loved them….Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down….You’ve done amazing things. And you are loved; you are capable of lives of great joy and meaning. It’s what you are made of. And it’s what you’re here for. Take care of yourselves; take care of one another.”
~ Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
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