Monday, April 23, 2012

Walk the Walk


"A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself."
George Bernard Shaw

Grace enters into any craft through a series of preceding clumsy handlings. Well, on second thoughts, it enters only if the lessons from the clumsy attempts are learnt in order to aid being more skillful.



The Sufi mystic Rumi, expresses this state of being quite well when he says "Soul, if you wish to uncover secrets, you must know nothing of shame and dignity."