"Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way. But no matter how frightening learning is, it is more terrible to think of a man without knowledge. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: Does this path have a heart?"
Carlos Castaneda "The Teachings of Don Juan"
I believe that every relationship we ever form has a purpose in our lives. We gain inisght and experience by sharing our lives with one another.
There are very few people that I wish I never met or shared a relationship with. But I have grown wven from the bad the relationships and encounters with others. And I am sure they have as well.
The question is how will we use that experience in a positive way - to build ourselves and others up instead of tearing us apart.
What did Joseph learn from his encounter with Potipha's wife? What did Bathsheba learn from her affair with David and losing her husband and baby?
"Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way. But no matter how frightening learning is, it is more terrible to think of a man without knowledge. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: Does this path have a heart?"
Carlos Castaneda "The Teachings of Don Juan"
Carlos Castaneda "The Teachings of Don Juan"
1 comment:
Some interesting thoughts, but my reading of David and Bathsheba is that she was raped. If you look at the text closely, she did not approach the king or make any overtures to him, rather she was summoned before him and he lay with her and then sent her away. The next communication he gets from her is the message that she is pregnant, at which point he kills her husband.
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