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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
-H Thurman
-H Thurman
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It may be that we are only here to learn how to love.
Maria Popova ⢠Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life
âThe child says: âWhen I am a big boy.â But what is that? The big boy says, âWhen I grow up.â And then, grown up, he says: âWhen I get married.â But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to âWhen Iâm able to retire.â And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it;
... See moreDale Carnegie ⢠How to stop worrying & start living
âI donât think we talk enough about the in betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but donât yet know how, donât yet feel strong enough, donât yet know what your first step is. So to the people in the in betweens, donât be disheartened, donât give up. Youâve done the hard part. Now just take it one small step at a time.
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When we were very young, our bodies told us that we could break through the constraints of the mundane world and seize a more colorful, wild life for ourselves. As we grew older, we caught glimpses of lives that looked more exciting and full of promise than ours, through a million shiny portholes, and we began to define joy as something that lived
... See moreAsk Polly ⢠Are You a Settler?
âSometimes life feels a certain way that we call âabsurdâ: nothing matters, all efforts are for naught, everything seems random and perverse, positive intention is perpetually thwarted. This stance communicates darkness and edginess, which can feel like wisdom. But we donât live as if life is absurd; we live as if it has meaning and makes sense. We
... See moreI suppose this is what I mean when I say we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives. We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever arenât and people we didnât know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep faith with that, to put it in a box and wait.
... See moreCheryl Strayed ⢠Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Allowing and encouraging a quality of play and experimentation in practice is vital, and vitalizing. I canât emphasize this enough. Usually thatâs how we learn best as human beings, and it keeps things from getting rigid and feeling heavy.