As Brother David Steindl-Rast says, whether one is religious or secular, it’s hard to argue against gratefulness.
How much gratefulness we feel has little to do with whether life seems abundant or filled with hardship. On the contrary, it hinges on the degree to which we are prey to the delusion that we are self-made, or instead have discovered that life is a process in which we endlessly stumble into the unknown.
Let’s never forget what a wondrous planet we live on — a place where staggering beauty can suddenly sweep up from the horizon.
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
Inspiring, too bad that all the war mongers can’t take the time out to reflect of the wondrous beauty that they are destroying.
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‘god is everything we
can see and can’t see
it has existed from
the beginning of time
and will continue
till time ends
there is nothing
god does not contain
nor does anything
exist outside of it
it’s not a question
of learning something
but one of remembrance,
actually forgetting things
the falsehoods we’ve
come to believe
we are not separate
we are pure awareness
presumably we are all in bodies
and these words are tools
to describe an understanding
it’s not that we don’t know
who we are – we just forgot
all of this – is to remind us’
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