How to Human
by Kate Smalley · updated 4mo ago
How to Human
by Kate Smalley · updated 4mo ago
"It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain."
— Gunilla Brodde Norris
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"The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities f
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“Great things can only be understood gradually. You don’t get anything great all at once.”
— Richard Rohr
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"We cannot hurry the river."
— Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
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"My being an artist is not a question of being able to make artwork. It is a question of my willingness to make something imperfect, or ugly, and how much resilience I have to face that reality repeatedly."
— Anna Fusco
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“Reality itself is the best ally of God. If you want to find God, if you want to go deep into the mystery of God, just accept reality in all of its truth and all of its depth. That will tell you all you need to know about the good, and the true, and the beautiful.”
— Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go
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"The true self is not created, it is surrendered to.”
— Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go
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"An important distinction must be made: liberation and freedom are not the same. Liberation is a process. Freedom is a temporary state of being. Liberation is dynamic. It never ends."
— Emilie Townes, Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader
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"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"
— Mary Oliver
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