Showing posts with label Spiritual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spiritual. Show all posts
"No matter how many scars we carry from what we have gone through and suffered in the past, our intrinsic wholeness is still here: what else contains the scars? None of us has to be a helpless victim of what was done to us or what was not done for us in the past, nor do we have to be helpless in the face of what we may be suffering now. We are also what was present before the scarring—our original wholeness, what was born whole. And we can reconnect with that intrinsic wholeness at any time, because its very nature is that it is always present. It is who we truly are."
"We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life . . .I learned a long time ago. . .that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives the span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying?"
- Chiam Potok in his book The Chosen
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