Da Vinci
7:05 AM
Backblast: Friday Run Club – 8 Deadly Thoughts conclude
Date: 12/1/2023
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Conditions: Rain
Warmorama to Dolly Parton’s Winter Wonderland
The Thang: We walked and we ran
Moleskin: The last of these eight deadly thoughts are especially difficult to overcome: listlessness (solution: perseverance), vainglory (solution: solitude), pride (solution: humility). The truth is the thoughts earlier on the list are minor compared to these. They’re so difficult that we can’t do it alone.
“Before the wood becomes wooden flame—completely one with fire—the wood spits and hisses and oozes in preparation for becoming all flame. As part of the process of healing we become acutely aware of just how filled we are with arrogance, envy, preoccupation with our reputation, judgmentalism. Indeed, these characteristics were there within us, but we were at most only vaguely aware of them; now the living flame of love is drawing them out and placing them in our sight. The problem is that this stage of growth in humbling self-knowledge is singularly painful, with the result that we feel we are falling to pieces when in fact we are becoming one with the living flame of love.” Martin Laird, A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation(140-141).
If Laird’s books interest you, I recommend starting with the first one in the series.
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