“Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.”
p 69 - Book one: The winds of change - The web of illusion
Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980)
“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.”
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Meister Eckhart
(1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon III : The Angel's Greeting
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all. It is essential to God to give, for His essence is His goodness and His goodness is His love. Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God. If the earth flee downward from heaven, it finds heaven beneath it; if it flee upward, it comes again to heaven. The earth cannot flee from heaven: whether it flee up or down, the heaven rains its influence upon it, and stamps its impress upon it, and makes it fruitful, whether it be willing or not. Thus doth God with men: whoever thinketh to escape Him, flies into His bosom, for every corner is open to Him. God brings forth His Son in thee, whether thou likest it or not, whether thou sleepest or wakest; God worketh His own will. That man is unaware of it, is man's fault, for his taste is so spoilt by feeding on earthly things that he cannot relish God's love. If we had love to God, we should relish God, and all His works; we should receive all things from God, and work the same works as He worketh.
Seamus Heaney
(1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
From Nobel Prize for Literature speech 1995
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Brennan Manning
(1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
“There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.”
Part I, Essay 18: The Sceptic
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
Robert Graves
(1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
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Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.
Maxim 180.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
