It is so delicious to be done with things
“I am convinced it is a great art to know how to grow old gracefully, and I am determined to practise it… I always thought I should love to grow old, and I find it even more delightful than I thought. It is so delicious to be done with things, and to feel no need any longer to concern myself much about earthly affairs… I am tremendously content to let one activity after another go, and to await quietly and happily the opening of the door at the end of the passage-way, that will let me in to my real abiding place.“
— Hannah Whitall Smith, 1903
Quaker suffragist
Today’s Invitation
Consider what you can deliciously let go of to open the door to something new.
This Week’s Query
How has your relationship to quietude, solitude and stillness changed during your life?
What are the spiritual fruits of solitude?
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