You know quite well

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse.

Today, our school officially found out that Sylvia, our principal, will not be returning to Flynn. Our district told our parents and families before the staff. They have yet no principal to replace her. The district, at least, recognizes that we need an experienced principal. Flynn will be getting a Turnaround Principal. There is hope for Flynn, but will I be part of it?

Where there is love

© Hector Lee, 2010

Where there is love, there is pain.

--Spanish Proverb

the truth that many people never understand

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton.

I think that taking life seriously

I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know ... that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow.

--Ernest Becker.

When it is dark enough

© Hector Lee, 2010

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

--Persian proverb