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Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are not sure that we are
doubly sure.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
UNDRESSING
Learn the alchemy true human beings
know; the moment you accept what
troubles you've been given, the door
will open. Welcome difficulty
as a familiar comrade. joke with
torment brought by the Friend.
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes
and jackets that serve to cover ,
then are taken off. That undressing,
and the naked body underneath, is
the sweetness that comes after grief .
--Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
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