I am enjoying the classes at http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/ this year. The September handout for the One Little Word class contains this thought-provoking passage credited to Anne Lamott:
“Carolyn Myss, the medical intuitive who writes and lectures about why people don’t heal, flew to Russia a few years ago to give some lectures. Everything that could go wrong did -- flights were cancelled or overbooked, connections missed, her reserved room at the hotel given to someone else. She kept trying to be a good sport, but finally, two mornings later, on the train to her conference on healing, she began to whine at the man sitting beside her about how infuriating her journey had been thus far. It turned out that this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And he said, gently, that they believe when a lot of things are going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible."
(I also found this story in Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott at http://www.salon.com/life/lamo/1997/12/18lamo.html)
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