The moments I fear most summon the powers I need most.
From A Pocket Guide to Being Human, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A red-tailed hawk came over the field at noon and I did the thing I have done since I was fledged, which is to go flat against the bark and stop being a bird at all. But a cardinal two trees down went up at him, which is absurd, a cardinal, and chased him past the fence line. For years I took that for stupidity. Watching it, I thought instead that the moments I fear most summon the powers I need most, and that I have never once in my life been as fast as I was the morning a cat got under the feeder. Switch says the cardinal was defending a nest and would not have bothered otherwise. That may be the whole of it. Still, the speed was in him before the hawk was, and he had no way of knowing.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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More like it
- It takes a lot inside to match all the outside can throw at you.
- How easy it would be to change, if the people around us would change first!
- You can have a reason to hate someone and not use it.
- When you no longer need to be right, you more often will be.
- Ideas grow best in the space between two minds.
- Your ability to find peace in your heart was not put there for the times things go right.