Really enjoyed this, so well articulated. This definitely speaks to me personally, accepting disappointment has been the key theme for me this past year. It's been such a wondrous process, seeing as I'm in such a better place now than I would have been if I'd gotten my own way.
Mark- This is beautiful. We live in a time of recovery. I mean that in both senses, i.e. a time of recovery of the fullness of contemplative life, and the recovery from the trauma of its absence aka modernity and consumer capitalism. We are living during an unfolding catastrophe, but one where we are given the option to gather things up again in a different way, a new/old way. Which was always available to us, but the urgency of which is now far more difficult to deny.
Really enjoyed this, so well articulated. This definitely speaks to me personally, accepting disappointment has been the key theme for me this past year. It's been such a wondrous process, seeing as I'm in such a better place now than I would have been if I'd gotten my own way.
Thank you Mark, this was gently persuasive and soothingly reassuring. It is much appreciated and very timely.
Mark- This is beautiful. We live in a time of recovery. I mean that in both senses, i.e. a time of recovery of the fullness of contemplative life, and the recovery from the trauma of its absence aka modernity and consumer capitalism. We are living during an unfolding catastrophe, but one where we are given the option to gather things up again in a different way, a new/old way. Which was always available to us, but the urgency of which is now far more difficult to deny.
Thank you for this. -Jack
Thank you, Mark. You nailed it. --Clara