"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
this too shall pass...what comes next is uncertain, but we can be assured that this too shall pass
time is fleeting but seems endless when change brings discomfort and inconvenience (for some, hunger and suffering for many others)
Yet life is for living, not waiting for things we don't like to pass and what life was like in our memories can never be recreated.
Let us go forward with courage my friends and ease our fingers loose from the death grip on our past. Let's take a step into creating our future (we can plug our nose and close our eyes as we step into thin air, the exhilaration alone is worth the step, then we can trust that our imagination is ready with a parachute, it always does! This means to let go of striving for the illusion of security to follow a path that makes us grow)
If one needs a starting point we can never go wrong by being grateful for whatever we have, no matter how insignificant it seems, and starting there ...
Check out this 5 minute youtube of some examples...
... more wisdom from Tolkien ... we are all part of the same world and what affects some of us affects us all.
“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Cheers
Jeanne
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