Brother. Mother. It was they who led me to Your door.
The nuns taught us there are two ways through life.
The way of nature…
And the way of grace.
You have to choose which one you’ll follow.
Grace doesn’t try to please itself.
Accept being slighted, forgotten, disliked.
Accept insults and injuries.
Nature only wants to please itself.
Get others to please it, too.
Likes to lord it over them.
To have its own way.
It finds reasons to be unhappy…
When all the world is shining around it…
And love is smiling through all thing.
They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace…
Ever comes to a bad end.
I will be true to you.
Whatever comes.
Extracts from《Tree of life》
2012年1月22日 星期日
2011年12月27日 星期二
Trembling
I am trembling even it's 16 degree outside. Planned to barbecue with family, but not in the mood. Sitting there just because the fire can warm me. I am not hungry, but grandma keep feeding me foods she grilled. I should have faith that there's still love around. It doesn't hurt so deep, but the truth is just too cruel...
2011年12月12日 星期一
2011年11月30日 星期三
Struggle of life...
This quote in the book -- Walden -- is really touching. Makes me cry.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of ...life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of ...life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
2011年11月4日 星期五
2011年11月3日 星期四
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