Dunno how i ended up here, just click-click and hey presto!
Anyway, been reading ala skimming thru this whole epicurian ZTH saga... and well, i guess i'll just share a little something i've learned after a very devastating but eye-opening breakup.
Yes i was hurt, betrayed and lost. Felt like shit. Yes you have a right to be upset and sad but NOT AND NEVER to the extent of harming your ownself.
NOBODY... and NOBODY on this blue-green sphere we call Home is worth that ending your life for.
You owe it to your family, your friends AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU OWE IT TO YOU to take care of yourself.
I'd like to share something that helped me true a very difficult time in my Life. (sat luen la! what else!)
Your Joy is your Sorrow unmasked.
And the self-same well from which your laughter rise was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that Sorrow carves into your Being, the more Joy you can contain.
Is not the Cup that holds your Wine the very Cup that was burned in the potter's Oven?
Is not the Lute that soothes your Spirit the very Wood that was hollowed by Knives?
When you are Joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you Sorrow that is giving you Joy.
When you are Sorrowful, look again in your heart and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your Delight.
Joy and Sorrow, together they come. And when once sits alone with you at your Board, remember that the other is asleep unto your Bed.
Verily you are suspended like scales between your Sorrow and your Joy.
Only when you are Empty are you at standstill and balanced.
When the Treasure-keeper lifts you to weight his gold and his silver, needs must your Joy or your Sorrow rise or fall.
- The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
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