I Want You Slow-Cooked, or Not At All

It is interesting how when we start our journey we have completely the wrong idea - that somehow by magic we will wind up in some blissful nirvana.

'The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously throug…