Transformation, the
essence found, in quotations &
art.
The man who, being really
on the Way,
falls upon hard
times in the world will not, as a consequence,
turn to that friend who
offers him refuge
and encourages his old self to survive.
Rather, he will seek out
someone who will faithfully
and inexorably help him to
risk himself,
so that he may endure the
suffering and pass courageously through it,
thus making of it a
"raft that leads to the far shore."
Only to the extent that
man exposes himself
over and over again to
annihilation
can that which is
indestructible arise within him.
In this lies the dignity
of daring.
Karlfried Gras Von
Durkheim
*
...and then the day came
when the risk to remain in a tight
bud
was more painful
than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
*
Solitude is the furnace of
transformation.
Without solitude we remain
victims of our society
and continue to be
entangled in the illusions of the false self.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
*
