"I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry
by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most
particularly because the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes.
For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and
just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.
We are
needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more
so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us,
and we will know them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a
believer? Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater?
Didn't you ask for grace? Don't you remember that to be in grace means
to submit to the voice greater?
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of
stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to
assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely.
It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the
critical mass to tip toward an enduring good."
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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