12.19.06
After the Yuen Method Workshop
Melissa and I have driven Tai to the Pittsburgh airport today after picking her up from there on Thursday. It was a great workshop over the weekend with great friendships strengthened throughout her visit. I’ve not had time to write much and am still processing all I’ve seen and learned.
Earlier last week my friend Stephanie sent me a quote. It felt very much in line with the experiences I’ve been having in life, so I’ll share it with you now.
George Bernard Shaw-
What happens when you find joy unspeakable in an unspeakably joyless world?
Does it change the world; does it change God? When I speak of joy, I refer
to an exultation of body and soul that extends far beyond our ordinary
pleasures.
This is the true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by
yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish,
selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world
will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my
life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to
do for it what I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more
I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me,
it’s a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold of for the moment and I
want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations.
