If you've ever looked through my blog even the slightest bit, you'll know that Jody Landers, mother of six/social entrepreneur extraodinaire provides me with endless insight and courage to continue down the path that I know is right for me.
Almost everyday she posts something that is profound to me and touches my heart.
As a struggle with my decision to go to Africa, I have been reading the blog she wrote when she was in the process of adopting her two youngest children from Sierra Leone.
Today, I found this passage/quote on her blog:
"Now, the range of our possible sufferings is determined by the largeness of our heart. It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. Indeed, if it is your ambition to avoid the troubles of life, the recipe is perfectly simple — cut the wings of every soaring purpose and cultivate a little life centered on yourself, with the fewest correspondences and relations.
By doing this you will escape a lot of life afflictions. Cultivate negations, and large tracts of the universe will cease to exist. For instance, cultivate deafness and you will not hear horrifying things. Cultivate blindness and you will not see ugly things. Stupefy a sense, and you shut out a world. And, therefore, it is literally true that if you want to get through the world with the smallest trouble you must reduce yourself to the smallest compass."
-J.H. Jowett
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