"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
T.S. Eliot
Every ending has its seeds in its beginning.
What to make of that?
Do we see those seeds? Do we recognize them at the outset? Likely not.
Why would we? Why would we want to?
Knowing these things does not make anything automatically easier. (I don't even know what that means. What ending is "automatic"? Or "easy"?)
Or less painful.
Aptly, today, Day 355, has these words from Thich Nhat Hanh in a compendium of his wisdom:
"Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things."
T.S. Eliot
Every ending has its seeds in its beginning.
What to make of that?
Do we see those seeds? Do we recognize them at the outset? Likely not.
Why would we? Why would we want to?
Knowing these things does not make anything automatically easier. (I don't even know what that means. What ending is "automatic"? Or "easy"?)
Or less painful.
Aptly, today, Day 355, has these words from Thich Nhat Hanh in a compendium of his wisdom:
"Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things."
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