Friendship
Sofia Samatar, Opacities
The longer I live the more I learn that love — whether we call it friendship, family, or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.
—James Baldwin
If you’ve been lucky enough to have had a deep relationship with another human being, you know what pure attention and witness feel like. The poet David Whyte said that "the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen b
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A good question is something that has incredible grace and light and depth to it. A good question is something that always, in some way, plows the invisible furrows of absence to find the nourishment and the treasure that we actually need.
John O'Donohue • Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
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