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"Everything is okay in the end... If it's not okay, it's not the end." - Unknown.
Happiness isn't getting what we want, but being satisfied with what we have,
-me. (:
SO I STAY NEAR THE DOOR: Why i live my life the way I do.......
So i stay near the door. I neither go too far in, nor stay too far.
The door is the most important door in the world-
It is the door through which people wlak when they find God.
There's no use my going way inside,
and staying there.
When so many are still outside and they...crave to know where the door is...
So I stay near the door
The most tremendous thing in the world is for people to find that door-
the door to God.
The most important thing any one can do is take hold of one of those blind,
groping hands, and put it on the latch...
Nothing else matters compared to helping them find it,
and open it, and walk in and find (God)...
SO I STAY NEAR THE DOOR.
Go in, great saints, go all the way in-
go way down into the cavernous cellars,
and way up into the spacious attics-
it is a vast, roomy house, this house where God is.
Go into the deepest hidden casements,
of withdrawal, of silence...
(But realize that), the people too far in do not see...
(they see) preoccupied with the wonder of it all...
SO I STAY NEAR THE DOOR
I admire the people who go way in.
But wish they would not forget how it was before they go in.
Then they would be able to help the people who have not yet even found the door...
YOU CAN GO IN TOO DEEPLY, AND STAY IN TOO LONG,
AND FORGET THE PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE DOOR.
As for me, I shall take my old accustomed place,
near enough to God to hear Him,
and know He is is there,
but not so far from the people as not to hear them,
and remember they are there, too.
WHERE?
Outside the door-
thousands of them,
millions of them,
But more important for me,
one of them,
two of them,
ten of them,
whose hands I am intended to put on the latch.
So I shall stay by the door and wait for those who seek it.
"I (choose) to be a door-keeper..."
SO I STAY NEAR THE DOOR.
