We live between the act of awakening and
the act of surrender. Each morning we
awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each
night we surrender to the dark to be taken in the world of dreams where time is
no more. At birth we were awakened and
emerged to become visible in the world.
At death we will surrender again to the dark to become invisible. Awakening and surrender: they frame each day and each life; between
them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and the frailty. When the Celtic imagination searched for the
structures of shelter and meaning, it raised its eyes to the mountains and
heavens and put its trust in the faithful patterns of sun, stars, moon and
seasons… [A]ll frailty and uncertainty was seen to be sheltered by eternal
beauty which presides over all the journeys between awakening and surrender,
the visible and the invisible, the light and the darkness.
The soul is hungry for beauty… For a while
the strains of struggle and endurance are relieved and our frailty is
illuminated by a different light in which we come to glimpse beyond the shudder
of appearances the sure form of things.
--John O’Donohue, Beauty, The Invisible Embrace
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