Metanoia

I was transfixed by those words. To live in love...

What I cast myself upon the rough rock, face down and stretched out my arms in a plea that was also a prayer and that was also a reminiscent of a cross.

I knew suddenly that to live truly in love was the most incredible sacrifice one human being could make. To reject greed and lust and power hunger and striving for success, to live only to love, was perhaps the most difficult attempt that a person could make.

But I could feel a deep change in me. The desires of the world were falling away and I was filled with a great peace. And at the same time the very rock moved beneath me. If I had not already been prostrate, I could have died...