Making ourselves fully available

When we have made ourselves fully available to our neighbor and to God, becoming emptied in the process, then at last we begin to live.

~ from HAPPINESS THAT LASTS by Martin Israel

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I am the breeze that nourishes all things green
I encourage blossoms to flourish with
ripening fruits ...
I am the yearning for good.

~ Hildegard of Bingen