How to Human
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing or rightdoing, there is a field, I'II meet you there."
— Rumi
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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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"The true self is not created, it is surrendered to.”
— Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go
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“If you are here unfaithfully with us / you’re causing terrible damage.”
— Rumi
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What qualities in myself have never met? What two qualities in myself have I never put together. What distances could I travel if I actually brought parts of me together that have never spoken?
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
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We have no idea what will land on the shoreline of morning tomorrow. We are always actively involved in receiving and shaping. I think that’s one of the major mistakes we make with time, is that we equate it with space. When in actual fact time is unshaped. Expectation creates the future, and the imagination that you bring to the new dawn will surp
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Daniel Schmachtenberger - How can we live a meaningful life?
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Being, doing, becoming. “The only doing that matters is adding beauty to life and/or protecting/serving the beauty that’s there.” “Most people are doing stuff that if they stopped doing it, the world would be better.”
The frontier between what you want out of the world and what the world wants out of you.
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
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