<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342240" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you ever understand this? <br>If my spirit was poor, how could I enter heaven? <br>Was I depressed? <br>Understanding editing,<br>I see how a comma, removed or inserted<br>with careful plan,<br>can change everything.<br>I was reminded of this<br>when a poor young man<br>in Tunisia<br>desperate to live<br>and humiliated for trying<br>set himself ablaze; <br>I felt uncomfortably warm<br>as if scalded by his shame.<br>I do not have to sell vegetables from a cart as he did<br>or live in narrow rooms too small for spacious thought; <br>and, at this late date,<br>I do not worry that someone will<br>remove every single opportunity<br>for me to thrive.<br>Still, I am connected to, inseparable from,<br>this young man.<br>Blessed are the poor, in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<br>Jesus. (Commas restored) .<br>Jesus was as usual talking about solidarity: about how we join with others<br>and, in spirit, feel the world, and suffering, the same as them.<br>This is the kingdom of owning the other as self, the self as other; <br>that transforms grief into<br>peace and delight.<br>I, and you, might enter the heaven<br>of right here<br>through this door.<br>In this spirit, knowing we are blessed,<br>we might remain poor</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Walker">Alice Walker</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342240" data-title="Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit de Alice Walker" data-description="Did you ever understand this? If my spirit was poor, how could I enter heaven? Was I depressed? Understanding editing, I see how a comma, removed or inserted with careful plan, can change everything. I was reminded of this when a poor young man..."></div> </div> </div>

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