TAKING REFUGE ...
There are day in your life that shake you to the core of your being.. You feel there is something to uncover.. It lasts for months..for years.. Then one day you come across that book/person/situation that blows your mind .. opens your heart...leaves you wandering how you could breathe/live without knowing it. Today was one of those days to me. I have been reading 'T he Wisdom of no escape ' by PEMA CHODRON and i came to that chapter where she talks about 'taking refuge'. she says: " i always thought that the phrase 'to take refuge' is very curious becaue it sounds theistic, dualistic , dependant, "to take refuge" in something. i i remember very clearly at a time of eneormous stress in my life, readin Alice in Wonderland. Alice became a heroine for me because she fell into this hole and she jut free-fell. She didn't grab for the edges, he wasn't terrified, trying to stop her fall; she just fell and she looked at things as she we