Wow, jeg er veldig beveget av Saki Santorellis bok Heal Thy Self these days, selv om jeg bare så vidt har rukket å begynne på den. Det nedenfor er tatt ut av sin sammenheng, men jeg håper likevel det når over til dere:
Whether you are in good health or ill, whether your malaise is expressed in the body or in the anguish of the mind, you have in your hands a true story. It is about a hidden treasure, a reminder of your wealth, a call to reclaim the inheritance that is yours. Do you recall the aboundance I'm talking about? The gem that was placed inside you long ago. Unseen yet irresistible, it is your essence, the one walking should to shoulder with you even when you imagine that you are all alone.
Can you fell this life within you? Even as you read, maybe you sense its faint stirrings in a soft wateriness flooding your mouth, or in the murmur of the old language spoken deep in your belly. You know those tones, the ones emerging from the doorway where the rib cage parts, or maybe that arise in windlike whispers filling you ears in the middle of the night when sleep departs and you are summoned to wakefulness. It is your old friend, an ally that has been with you all of your life.
Maybe it's time for the two of you to be reacquainted, to travel together with fresh presence into the world. You and I are wanderers in search of this inner jewel. Despite any public relations campaigns to the contrary, despite all of our projected imagining that others have it all together, everyone is doing the same work. Maybe we can travel for a little while as compaions. What other choice do we really have, anyway?
Heal Thy Self, 13-14
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