I read a few blogs regularly, but one of my favorites is Tom Davis’s blog Red Letters.
I found this a quote that I liked on his blog today and followed it to the original source
which is where I found the below quote. The letter it comes from took me a long time to read, but there was some really thought-provoking stuff in it. But I liked this portion because this whole trip so far has been a lot of facing my fears and trying new things.
And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. –Rainer Maria Rilke
I don’t have many more thoughts..I think that says it pretty good.
