Becoming

In Tews' Day's mailbox...

...[W]hat kind of person we have been becoming all these years? .... Can we begin to see ourselves as only part of the universe, just a fragment of it, not its center? Can we give ourselves to accepting the heat and the rain, the pain and the limitations, the inconveniences and discomforts of life, without setting out to passively punish the rest of the human race for the daily exigencies that come with being human? – Joan Chittister in Fr. Richard Rohr's Mediations.

We could take pride in our human existence...and develop some sense of dignity and power. – Chӧgyam Trungpa Rinpoche

[S]haring — discussion, art, conversation, even, perhaps, touch in the moment — is one of the ways that the pain of the past in its pastness is converted to the future tense of joy. – after David Milch