"From the moment we wake up until the moment we close our eyes at night (or pass out from sheer exhaustion), it seems we're being barraged by negativity and darkness sometimes. And if we're not careful it's easy to succumb to the mis-perception that darkness is winning over light.
On the global scale, there's the financial crisis, the pompous political posturing and Congressional craziness, the saber rattling and wars, hunger, natural disasters of epic proportion and incurable disease. And on a personal scale, physical and emotional stress, maladies of all kinds (and the treatments that sometimes cause even worse side effects), loss of loved ones, unemployment, loneliness, depression and disconnection. It's enough to make you scream "stop the world ... I wanna get off!!"
But as I say in my poem A Villager Speaks, and often quote on this site, "[u]ntil you take your last breath you will always have time to return to your place of origin and begin again." Sometimes beginning again means having the courage to be certain in the midst of doubt, to be positive in the face of discouragement, to believe and have faith even (and especially) when all the evidence we experience with our senses says we should throw in the towel and quit.
Rest if you must .... but don't you quit!" Read the full post.![]()
