Tuesday, June 12, 2018

To open ourselves to the Mercy (Helen Luke)

    Like so many other meanings hidden in our language, the word commerce, debased to commercialism, has lost much of its dignity… But the root meaning of exchange persisted and developed into another context, its meaning deepening through the French merci to grateful response and kindness of heart, and finally to the compassion and forgiveness, including all our shades of darkness, whereby we are able to open ourselves to the Mercy.  This is the ultimate exchange that, when we come to a final letting go, may reveal to us the whole. 
--Helen Luke, Old Age


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