Stoopid o'clock here in ol blighty...trouble sleeping as I have been reading a fantastic book called 'The Buddha, Geoff and Me' by Edward Canfor-Dumas.....I just felt inspired to share a passage...........these are the words of Daisaku Ikeda...a Buddhist writer from his work 'A Lasting Peace'
" I feel I have done something creative when I have thrown myself wholeheartedly into a task and fought it through unstintingly to its conclusion and thus have won a struggle to enlarge myself.It is a matter of sweat and tears.The creative life demands constant effort to improve one's thoughts and actions. Perhaps the dynamism involved in the effort is the important thing.
You will pass through storms, and you may suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is to persevere in the face of defeat and to follow the rainbow within your heart. Complaints and evasions are cowardly, and corrupt life's natural tendancy towards creation. The person who gives up the fight for creativeness is headed for the hell that destroys all life.
You must never slacken in your efforts to build new lives for yourselves. Creativeness means pushing open the heavy door to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the hardest task in the world. For opening the door to your own life is more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
But the act of opening the door vindicates your existence as a human being and makes life worth living. No one is lonlier or unhappier than the person who does not know the pure joy of creating a life for himself.To be human is not merely to stand erect and manifest reason and intellect:to be human in the full sense of the word is to lead a creative life."
It just jumped out of the page at me.....sometimes a piece of writing can do that...grab you, shake you about and put you back down changed......so another forward step into this challenge we call life.....
" I feel I have done something creative when I have thrown myself wholeheartedly into a task and fought it through unstintingly to its conclusion and thus have won a struggle to enlarge myself.It is a matter of sweat and tears.The creative life demands constant effort to improve one's thoughts and actions. Perhaps the dynamism involved in the effort is the important thing.
You will pass through storms, and you may suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is to persevere in the face of defeat and to follow the rainbow within your heart. Complaints and evasions are cowardly, and corrupt life's natural tendancy towards creation. The person who gives up the fight for creativeness is headed for the hell that destroys all life.
You must never slacken in your efforts to build new lives for yourselves. Creativeness means pushing open the heavy door to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the hardest task in the world. For opening the door to your own life is more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
But the act of opening the door vindicates your existence as a human being and makes life worth living. No one is lonlier or unhappier than the person who does not know the pure joy of creating a life for himself.To be human is not merely to stand erect and manifest reason and intellect:to be human in the full sense of the word is to lead a creative life."
It just jumped out of the page at me.....sometimes a piece of writing can do that...grab you, shake you about and put you back down changed......so another forward step into this challenge we call life.....
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janegeraldine:
Thank you so much for stopping by and wishing me well. I AM slowly recovering. All the support REALLY helps.
niobe:
Yeah, I am so super stressed right now, but come December I am just going to be at peace and very happy.