Maxim #363: enduring Joy
Conventional wisdom tells us “Enjoy what you can; endure what you must”, and yet the Soul knows that Joy is always present — except in those moments when life is chosen to be merely endured …
Conventional wisdom tells us “Enjoy what you can; endure what you must”, and yet the Soul knows that Joy is always present — except in those moments when life is chosen to be merely endured …
Conventional wisdom tells us that “The family that prays together, stays together”, and yet the Soul knows that the only prayer that reaches the ears of the Divine is the one not uttered for self with passionate words or intense emotion, but rather the one that is made for the benefit others — and spoken […]
Conventional wisdom tells us that “No news is good news”, and yet the Soul knows that it is impossible to perceive Life’s truly Good News until we stop listening to & believing in “the news” sold by humankind …
Conventional wisdom tells us “First things first” — in the sense of “getting our priorities straight”, and yet the Soul knows that this saying only becomes truly Meaning-full when it reads “First things first” (meaning the pure state of awe-inspired awareness we all knew at birth) … AND ALSO “Last things last” (meaning the Peace […]