But then you lit the lamp and that was it. It was no sudden and miraculous glow But the warm comfort of one window lit Against the greyness I had come to be, And I stood weary and I saw it so, And I called then and you answered me. Young salamanders Red newts exploring forest Brother and sister On trail together again Too hard to go it alone โ Tom Snow.
If you want a deep inwardness, there is a walk you can take with a friend. The movement in my self from the mask to the face, from the personality to the person, from the performing actor to the ruler of the inner chamber, is the spiritual journey. To live, work, and suffer on this shore in faithfulness to the whispers from the other shore is the spiritual life. To be able to love and to recognize what love means: Not total acceptance, not blind acceptance, but recognition.
To recognize that we move against a common enemy does not mean that we beat the same drum or play the same tune. It means that we are committed to a future. XII If we have become a people incapable of thought, then the brute- thought of mere power and greed will think for us If we have become incapable of denying ourselves anything, then all we have will be taken from us.
If we have no compassion, we will suffer alone, we will suffer alone the destruction of ourselves. These are merely the laws of this world as known to Shakespeare, as known to Milton: When we cease from human thought a low and effective cunning stirs in the most inhuman minds. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawerโฆ and everything collapses.
The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them.
