Sunday, October 11, 2020

Sunday - Saying Yes to the World

 . . . I don't know what gladness is or where it comes from, this splitting open of the self. It takes me by surprise. Not an awareness of beauty and mystery, but beauty and mystery themselves, flooding into a mind suddenly without boundaries. Can this be gladness, to be lifted by that flood?

This is something that needs explaining, how light emerges from darkness, how comfort wells up from sorrow. The Earth holds every possibility inside it, and the mystery of transformation, one thing into another. This is the wildest comfort.

Kathleen Dean Moore, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature

2 comments:

Barbara Rogers said...

And how beautiful that concept is, to sit and ponder, and just to be.

Mystic Meandering said...

Indeed! ...a splitting open, a rising up from within... unbidden... inexplicable really... but oh so delightful :)