#Albertr Camus

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

~ Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

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"We may experience a part of our self that constantly complains. Nothing is ever right. This attitude blinds the soul from perceiving the great richness of the inner and outer kingdom.

When a student begins to realize how much they are always complaining, and how much this colors reality, a kind of remorse opens up, a sorrow, because they understand that they have blinded themselves.

Such remorse leads to repentance, or inner turning. Whatever the universe or humanity has done to you may have generated bitterness within. Now there is a great and profound sweetness. Repetition of Ya Shakur (Thankfulness) is an antidote for dissatisfaction with the falseness or incompleteness of the world.

That veil that has made this universe into a place of deprivation, a place to be constantly complained about, has been removed. The whole universe becomes an oceanic goldenness. It started as a drop of honey, and it becomes a golden universe. The heart is opened, and there is sweetness and gratitude for every moment you breathe."

~ Wali Ali Meyer et al, 'Physicians of the Heart'

[Thanks to Ian Sanders]