Here’s something else he said that I have found to be of great personal value: Howard Thurman was a very, very special person. We are trying to grow tall enough to wear.ĭespite all the crassness of life, despite all the hardness of life, The commonplace is shot through with new glory ĭeep and ancient wounds lose much of their old, old hurting.Ī crown is placed over our heads that for the rest of our lives One bright white light of penetrating beauty and meaning. Something that gathers up in itself all the freshets of experienceįrom drab and commonplace areas of living and glows in Throws all the rest of life into a new and creative relatedness, Some place for that which in itself is breathlessly beautiful and, There must always remain in every person’s life He was one of the principal architects of the modern, nonviolent civil rights movement and a key mentor to the Rev. Howard Washington Thurman (1899–1981) played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. In the late 1920s, Thurman became FOR’s first African American board member. The original version of this meditation by Howard Thurman appeared in his 1951 book Deep Is the Hunger. It was reprinted in the 1997 collection For the Inward Journey, selected by his daughter Anne Spenser Thurman.

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