An astonishing post…
Sketch of Caryll Houselander.
An astonishing post…
For me at least…from a wonderful webblog post on the life and person of Caryll Houselander…
“To accept oneself as one is; to accept life as it is:these are the two basic elements of childhood’s simplicity and humility. But it is one thing to say this and another to do it. What is involved? First of all, it involves the abandoning of all unreality in ourselves. But even granted that we have the courage to face ourselves and to root out every trace of pretense, how shall we then tolerate the emptiness, the insignificance, that we built up our elaborate pretense to cover?
The answer is simple. If we are afraid to know ourselves for what we are, it is because we have not the least idea of what trial is. It is because we have not the least idea of the miracle of life-giving love that we are. There is no pretense that can approach the wonder of the truth about us, no unreality that comes anywhere near the reality.” - Caryll Houselander quoted from a post about her at ”Tea at Trianon”
April 12th, 2007 at 7:27 am
She is someone that many of us can relate to.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Just a quick quote from a poem by Robert Herrick:
“Gather ye roses while ye may:
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
Tomorrow will be dying.
I finally have accepted myself after years of mental torment. Now I am 54 yrs. old, and what time is left I will savor it,
because I finally have found my reality and rather fancy to it. Im not afraid to be who I am. I just wish this would have come at an earlier time in my life. It would have been less tortuous. But that’s my journey and experince to know myself. Some never will.