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Ep. 83 – John O’Donohue

Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg

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The Importance of Faith

There's a beautiful quotation from Rilke, which I can't quote really accurately, but in some ways it's the basis of my exploration of faith and what it means. And that sometimes in faith, the period of greatest deepening is the winter time. On the colors are gone when your nature has retreated inside itself because it's cold and sore everywhere you turn. But somehow often in that darkness an incredible springtime is being prepared,. When you're gone through it, you don't know that. That's the thing about pain and about things falling apart: You will be caught in this whirlwind of fragment where there's no belonging.

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