On 02/02/2012 12:19 PM, lkcl luke wrote: > this was from my mum, i think that apart from being slightly trite > it's kinda apt. > > l. > > > LIVING A WHOLE LIFE Thursday, February 2, 2012 Candlemas Day or Groundhog Day > (both longing for Springtime) > All-or-nothing reformations and all-or-nothing revolutions are not > true reformations or revolutions. Most history, however, has not known > this until now. When a new insight is reached, we must not dismiss the > previous era or previous century or previous church as totally wrong. > It is never true! We cannot try to reform things in that way anymore. > > This is also true in terms of the psyche. When we grow and we pass > over into the second half of life, we do not need to throw out the > traditions, laws, boundaries, and earlier practices. That is mere > rebellion and is why so many revolutions and reformations backfired > and kept people in the first half of life. It is false reform, failed > revolution, and non-transformation. It is still dualistic thinking, > which finally turns against its own group too. > > So do not waste time hating mom and dad, hating the church, hating > America, hating what has disappointed you. In fact, don’t hate > anything. You become so upset with the dark side of things that you > never discover how to put the dark and the light together, which is > the heart of wisdom, all love, and the trademark of a second half of > life person. Maybe that is why we blessed the candles on this day, > right in the middle of winter. So true. Snowing and blowing in Colorado.
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