You have to allow disruption in your life. You have to take account of the parts of yourself you would throw out. You have to look in the places you look away from. And this is so the divine comes into birth. The divine wishes to come into birth in every moment.
True love and prayer are learned in the moment when prayer has become impossible, and the heart has turned to stone.
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