By Michael Bernard Beckwith — 2010
Is there something woven into the fundamental fabric of our being that urges us to seek fulfillment beyond the offerings of the external world?
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time—for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.