living embodiment
of the love of God
once wrote in a
private letter,
‘Love the word
it brings nothing.
I am told
God loves me and
yet the reality of
darkness and coldness
and emptiness is
so great that nothing
touches my soul.’
(About Mother Teresa of calcutta)
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entirely, who letJesus’ yoke reston them withoutresistance, willfind the burdenthey must bearto be light.‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart; and you will find rest. For my yoke is…
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any double edged sword.It is like the razor-sharpblade of a double-edgedsword, with the abilityto cut into the deepestrecesses of all thatis spiritual and divideit from that whichdoes not belong to God.
Sharing in openness
is necessaryto improvethe quality of ourown monastic lifeand even to helpin the task ofmonastic renewalwhich is very necessaryand healthy in spiritual life.
It is a great good fortune
a human body.It is a tabernaclesuitable forspiritual endeavours.It is the gatewayto deliverance.He who receives itand still wins not heaven,reaps tormentin the next worldand beats his headin vain remorse.He wrongly attributesthe blame to time,fate and God.(Spiritual wisdomup on readingUttarakanda Kanda) .
We share the
and experienceof transmutationwith the world.Thus we becomelight bearers.Wekeepshining like alighthouse toa wandering ship.
We live with our inflated ego.
like a long and breathing sigh.Like the fresh grassin the morning,thatfades andwithers awayin the evening,we perish in the grave.Our ego brakes into pieces.The devils laugh at our ego.