Weeds

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Thanks for the quote, Mace. The ideal of acceptance with equanimity of the

sweet and the bitter is also expressed in these verses by William Blake:

 

Joy and woe are woven fine,

A clothing for the soul divine;

Under every grief and pine

Runs a joy with silken twine.

It is right it should be so;

Man was made for joy and woe;

And when this we rightly know,

Safely through the world we go.

 

 

Michael

 

 

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> Von: Mace Mealer [mmealer]

> Gesendet: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:56

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> Betreff: Weeds

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> Weeds are defined as "unwanted plants"

> when they are "wanted" they are no longer weeds.

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> God knoweth best what is needful for us, and all that he does is

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> our good. If we knew how much he loves us, we should always be ready

> to receive equally and with indifference from his hand the sweet and

> the bitter. All would please that came from him. The sorest

> afflictions never appear intolerable, except when we see them in the

> wrong light. When we see them as dispensed by the hand of God, when

> we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us,

> our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even matter of

> consolation.

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> A Classic Quote From Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of

> God from, "God

> Makes the Rivers to Flow - Passages For Meditation," Eknath Easwaran,

> Nilgiri Press)