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• Comment Link Friday, 26 November 2010 04:27 posted by Bergen Vermette

  Whew' a doozy of a prayer by Burroughs.
  
  I can't think of a more contrasting sentiment than the one linked below, from Brother David Steindl-Rast:
  
  http://www.gratefulness.org/brotherdavid/a-good-day.htm
  
  Listening to the first, I feel let down and cynical, like it's time to protest. With the second, I'm at peace, open, and willing to extend a hand. Somehow I want to live from the second, while keeping the realities of the first in mind.
  
  It's times like this that Gramsci's famous assertion seems most relevant:
  
  "We must have pessimism of the intellect, but optimism of the will".