Some random thoughts have been coarsing through my little brain and I thought I'd share some of them:
1) As chaotic and crazy as the driving is, no one shouts or screams or even curses to themself!
2) McDonald's has a 20 Rupees menu--that's about $.50 (no, I have not eaten there!)
3) Horns can mean several things: "Hey, I'm over here about to pass you so don't even THINK of merging over," "GO!," "Go on and pass me if it's that important to you," "You drive too slowly," "Don't stand there," "Pay attention to me!," and several others. It's all very interesting.
4)I am rather unaffected by the devestating poverty that surrounded me as we drove back to the hotel this morning. What is the matter with me?! How can I be so numb? Perhaps somewhere in my subconscious I prepared myself and told myself to be hard. I feel guilty for not being more affected, but what can I do? I pray that God will help me understand how all of this works and how I am dealing with it--or not dealing with it.
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"...the month in which I learned the most in all my life. Alone as I was, I learned the knowledge of silence, of loneliness, of harsh and severe poverty, the interior conversation with 'the guest of the soul' who had never shown himself to be more 'sweet' than then."--Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ
"Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life." --Sogyal Rinpoche
Impossible yoga position but she likes to have goals that no one else can imagine, so they'll shut up about how they understand exactly what she's going through
1 comment:
Horns: they have an existential function as well, to announce to creation that one exists, and is in a vehicle, quite probably somewhere dangerously close to some other vehicle. Everything moves at 25kph so it's all relatively quite safe.
Poverty: I get back into the same mode, automatically, when I am back there. Remember, you and I have to deal with our guilt. It's the poor who have to actually "deal" with their lives.
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