When you are small, she said, you can move around and between what the big ones cannot. You will never carry much you call your own and can be easily lifted. Whatever comes your way will only be found, and you will not confuse it with something earned.
No hope is real comfort when you will often have to go without it. Same for inspiration, same for confidence. What you want to keep, she said, is what is left when hope and confidence and self-respect are gone. When all the rest collapses, notice: what is here, still breathing?
Accept its life and protect its breath. It is not distinct from your own, only infinitely more vast.
“Accept its life and protect its breath. It is not distinct from your own, only infinitely more vast.” Wonderful
Charlie, thank you for being here.
That is very beautiful writing and full of wisdom.
Thomas, thank you.