“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.” ThinkingMeanDoneEnoughSpiritualSpiritFallProgressPatientGladImperfectionSpiritual LifeNew BeginningsBe PatientDisturbed Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.” IfsMeanWholeOrderFeltNaturalPlanetsBrokenImportanceCommittedFleshRhythmSchemesPullingDisturbedJoggingNatural OrderLogging Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke