Weekly Pause & Ponder

Weekly Pause & Ponder

Transformation is something we all crave. This is what we are looking for under the guises of the many things we do. We seek fulfillment through security, pleasure, power, personal relationships, artistic creativity, intellectual insight, and mystical experiences.  We are intimately familiar with ourselves as beings available for mutation. And yet we also put obstacles in the way of the very transformation we most deeply desire. We really want to lose ourselves, and yet we cling to ourselves, pulling up adjectives by which we – and, we hope, we alone – can be described; but at the same time we know, on some secret level, that we are indefinable.

‘The Easter Mysteries’ – Beatrice Bruteau.  www.spiritualityandpractice.com

Weekly Pause & Ponder

One of the greatest liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Martin Luther King Junior.  www.goodreads.com