Work Around Your Abyss

Work Around Your Abyss by HENRY J.M. NOUWEN

There is a deep hole in your being, like an abyss. You will never succeed in filling that hole, because your needs are inexhaustible. You have to work around it so that gradually the abyss doses.

Since the hole is so enormous and your anguish so deep, you will always be tempted to flee from it. There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

人都以為自己很容易滿足，其實很難想像自己內心深處的那個洞有多大，也許大到沒有人可以想像。這個洞可以是個夢想，永遠往裡面填不滿，督促自己一再進步的夢想，聰明人說那是人類因夢想而偉大。也可能是個慾望，永遠無法滿足的慾望，人的一生就在夢想跟欲望中不斷追逐，可以認為是種痛苦，也可以是種多采多姿的生活!