Friday, October 27, 2023

When I’m found I feel lost...

I think some things we must always be unable to bear. Some things we should never just accept and we must never stop refusing to bear them. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young or how old we have gotten. Not for kudos and not for some sort of principle: not for pleasing others or for some momentarily glory. We must just refuse to bear them.


A longing to wander tears his heart when he hears trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the one who raised you, for new metaphors for life. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is a new beginning.