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Two truth to live by
By alexander and shinddler
The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go for life is a paradox
It enjoins us to clean to its many gifts
Even while it ordaanns their eventual relingishment
The rabbys of old put it in this way
A man comes to this world with his fist clenched
But when he dies his hand is open
Surely we ought to hold faster life for it is wondous and full of of beaubeauty breaaks every poor of god's zone earth
We know that
This is so
But all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance
When we remember what it was
And then suddenly realized that it is no more
We remember a beauty that faded
A love that waned
But we remember with far a greater pain
That we did not see that beauty when it flowered that we fail to respond with love
When it was tendered a recent experience retaught me this truth i was hospitalized following a severe heart attack
And had been an intensive care for several days
It was not a pleasant place
One morning i had to have some additional tests
The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital
So it had to be wieled across the couryard on a gourney as we emerged from our unit
The sunlight hit me
That's all there was to my experience just the light of the sun
And yet how beautiful
It was how warming how sparkling how brilliant
I looked to see whether anyone else rallished the son's golden glow
But everyone was hurying to infro most with eyes fixed on the ground
Then i remembered how often i too have been in different to the grandure of each day too preoccupied with petty
And sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splender of it
All the insight greened from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself life's gifts are precious
But we are too heatless of them
Here then is the first poll of life's paradoxical demands on us never too busy for the wonder in the all of life be relevant before each dawning day embrace hour sees each gold den minute hold fast to life
But that's so fast
That you cannot let it go
This is the second side of lace
Coin the opposite pull of its paradox
We must accept our losses
And learn how to let go