I get these emails -- like little inspirations for thought. This was today's:

'On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know...

...that you must be willing to lose it all before you can have it all.

What does this mean? It means that until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.

Detachment is the key. If you are so attached to something that you are deeply unhappy without it, then you are not simply attached, you are addicted.

You will not have to think but a second to know exactly why you received this message today.

Love, Your Friend...'

I have posted both of these before but probably deleted both during one of the times of the Black Dog. I have a young friend on here whose link I would give you, but she is new to Lj, and I am not sure she is ready to have a lot of visitors. But we have been talking about things, and it reminded me of these readings, which I dun think can be beat for imparting wisdom to the human soul. If I were standing before you in all my Oona glory, I could not give you a better gift than these two links:

The Prophet

Desiderata

The image of the 'grave soul' is from 'Introducing Science to the Psychology of the Soul', an article about Experimental Existential Psychology (or XXP for short). :)

This (see below) was rather appropriate. I didna get much sleep last night. Oddly I feel little. I was going to go out today to do some errands, but there is always tomorrow. I have some bills I have to take care of, and it would be nice to have something to eat.

I suppose the repetition of traumatic experience inures one to the same feelings of anger, outrage and hurt that are experienced the first few times around. I am just worn out with the unnecessary drama, although I like drama when I am not the object of it in the bad way.

Here is the content of the email:

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...that morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset.

Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain.

Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.


Eh, it might pass, but it might also come again as well. :(