Light for timid ships
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“Evolution is transformation. And transformation is happening all the time. It happens as we learn new things …
“Evolution is not an automatic ever-ascending spiritual conveyor-belt, but the result of our ability to face reality, adjust, adapt, and change,” says author Christine DeLorey.
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A key element of our transformative path is contrast, whose intensity can sometimes seem shocking – even disheartening. What can it point to, for our hearts, as it reminds us of all that we do not yet know?
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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable,” urges poet Mary Oliver, and theologian Paul Tillich reminds,“The first duty of love is to listen.”
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“ … if you are willing to let your heart break completely open, with no internal narrative controlling the opening, you will discover the pure, innocent love that is alive in the core of every emotion, every feeling, everybody,” writes Gangaji. “It remains pure and spacious regardless of change or loss.”
Once this happens, then perhaps we are equipped at last for what these words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s invite:
“Make ready thy soul that thou mayest be like the light which shineth forth from the loftiest heights on the coast, by means of which guidance may be given to the timid ships amid the darkness of fog …”
Including those often-timid ships of our own small selves.
