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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”
-Kevin AshtonHow long is the conversation of love?
Nothing less than everlasting would be enough. Not all loves do endure, but it is essential to love that we believe it will, that we want it to, because an orientation toward eternity is part and parcel of what it is to have fai
... See moreIt would be odd to say that the conversation of love “progresses,” as if it were a scientific discipline or a child working her way through units in a grade school math class. Sometimes love’s discussions are exchanges of expressions of affection, or bouts of repartee so piquant that their patter is elevated into verbal art, as in Cavell’s comedies
... See more- if you’re strong enough to resist against it, you’re certainly strong enough to surrender to it
A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you th
- you need to start before you’re ready because you become ready by starting. you figure out what works by seeing what doesn’t work. there is very little that you can *think* yourself into a reality-approved answer to. you need to live out your questions by experimenting with them.