- Humility is the supreme of all virtues. Humility to accept what is given. This is the real cultivation. As opposed to “to be content with what is”. The latter implies more was desired and couldn’t be had.
- Suffering is what I feel deep in my bones. I suffer therefore I am. I am therefore I suffer. Both arise together. Having forgotten the right view is why I am.
- We can only defeat Mara by loving Mara. Every Saturday we should arrange teatime with the Evil One. Mara is our own creation and it’s by running away from him that we give him shape.
- We keep sanity by exchanging consolations. The tendency is to one-up the Job inside the other such that my afflictions are more salient. I’m guilty of doing it in my thoughts if not in my speech. This only takes me farther from You.
“Unconsoled affliction is necessary. There must be no consolation — no apparent consolation. Ineffable consolation then comes down.”
(Gravity and Grace, Weil)