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Category: For the Despairing

  • A time for everything

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    “For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die;a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;a time to kill and a time to heal;a time to break down and a time to build up;a time…

  • “May heaven consume you”

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    This is a quote from a contemporary saint or “elder” in the Romanian Orthodox Church, Cleopa of the Sihastria Monastery. He was told to end his letters with this wish. It reminds me of other expressions of the same theme: ”Like a drop of water in the ocean” or “like a river merging into the…

  • A letter to my younger self

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    by Anima Pundeer, first published on the TAT Forum: https://tatfoundation.org/tat-forum-archives/forum2020-07.htm#4 Hello anima, I understand that you are at that point in life where any hope of finding happiness ever again seems unlikely. Life has become a burden. Even the slightest ray of ‘hope’ right now feels painful. You just want to disappear forever. Not having…

  • Love (III) by George Herbert

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    Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked any thing. A guest, I answered, worthy to be here: Love said, You shall be he. I the unkind, ungrateful?…

  • I Have Happened

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    “The first reason why I am interested in my identity is that I have happened. I have occurred, and I needn’t have occurred. I could have missed the bus of existence. Do you remember all those spermatozoa rushing to the ovum? I won’t go into the biodetails, but I turned out to be “me” on…