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IN GRATITUDE FOR JOHN O'DONOHUE
From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20080126
Author:Liza Field [email protected]
I praise what is truly alive,
What longs to be burned to death. ...
So long as you haven't experienced
This: to die and so to grow,
You are only a troubled guest
On the dark earth.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk and weary roles, and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet because it lies outside our vision ... we normally avoid or quell the unknown through domestication and control. ...
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