"If we worry we are not good or whole inside, we will be reluctant to stop and rest, afraid we will find a lurking emptiness, a terrible, aching void . . . If we are terrified of what we will find in rest, we will refuse to look up from our work, refuse to stop moving. We quickly fill in the blanks on our calendar with tasks, accomplishments, errands, things to be done--anything to fill the time and empty space. But this emptiness has nothing at all to do with our value or our worth. All life has emptiness at it's core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life. Without that emptiness, we are clogged and unable to give birth to music, love, or kindness."
From Wayne Muller's book Sabbath:
"If we worry we are not good or whole inside, we will be reluctant to stop and rest, afraid we will find a lurking emptiness, a terrible, aching void . . . If we are terrified of what we will find in rest, we will refuse to look up from our work, refuse to stop moving. We quickly fill in the blanks on our calendar with tasks, accomplishments, errands, things to be done--anything to fill the time and empty space. But this emptiness has nothing at all to do with our value or our worth. All life has emptiness at it's core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life. Without that emptiness, we are clogged and unable to give birth to music, love, or kindness."
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AuthorTarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm and numerous essays. You may read more of her work at tarnwilson.com. Archives
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