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Devastate Me, Baby
- what if the world that tried to tame us just forgot its own wild magic. And perhaps some of us; some brave, sensitive, fluttering, gentle rebels and poetic liberators are here to remind the world of what it once knew?
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When people talk about their creative work, they often call it their “baby”—which is the exact opposite of taking things lightly.
from Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
No, a fear of ourselves, because we know what we are capable of doing to each other when we are possessed by these convictions.
from Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
“Drama, combat, terror, numbness, and subservience—every day these things wipe out your sacred principles, whenever your mind entertains them uncritically or lets them slip in.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS
from The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Stephen Hanselman
DESIRE BURNS at the core of life, and it’s usually complicated. “If you love me then I don’t love you,” as Carmen sings.
from Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life by John Tarrant