What a great line. It’s Martin Prechtel, American author and teacher of many things spiritual and indigenous. I got it from Lisa Hess‘ sharing (thx Lisa for your thoughtful ways).
Here’s the full quote:
“Grief and Praise are renters whose landlord is Love…Grief is a worker on life’s big highways, and Praise is Grief’s eternal freight train, forever hauling the vision of life’s bigger picture from stars whose light hasn’t got here yet, which Grief uses to refill the potholes of our losses.” (Martin Prechtel, Smell of Rain on Dust).
Oh how it matters to have relationship with grief, with praise, and with love. Notice, it’s rarely something all worked out, never to be revisited. Rather, it’s something that we tend to, that we give regular seat for at the table of our conscious evolutions.
I’m glad for many people in my life that have steered me in these directions (sometimes when I’ve been kicking and screaming), in such a way that each of these are companions. Not enemies. No foes (though sometimes it feels this way). Companions, caring ones at that.
And on we go. Life’s stream. Life’s bigger picture.
