Dora Petričević
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Dora Petričević
Each of us is responsible for how we see, and how we see determines what we see. Seeing is not merely a physical act: the heart of vision is shaped by the state of soul. When the soul is alive to beauty, we begin to see life in a fresh and vital way.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
— Grandma, how to do deal with pain?
— With your hands, honey. If you do it with your mind in place to relieve the pain, it becomes even harder.
— With our hands grandma?
— Yes. Our hands are the antennae of our soul. If you move them by weaving, cooking,... See more
The soul and the body have been designed to be a functioning team, much the way the conscious and subconscious mind function together. The body knows our oneness with everything because it feels it. The awakened heart longs to explore others, to nurture others, to experience our oneness with others, and this offers a clue to the truths that the
... See moreJohn Kehoe • Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind
One likes to think there’s something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I’ve learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn’t conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
Donna Tartt • The Secret History
“unless someone dies, if a relationship goes wrong, you somehow had a part to play in it. how simultaneously freeing and overwhelming it is to know this. men aren’t bad, women aren’t good. people are people and we all make, allow and enable mistakes.” - what i know about love
Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it’s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love”. There is in it, the idea of the fall.
And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the... See more
And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the... See more
A person’s nondominant eye (the left eye if the person is right-handed, the right eye if they are left-handed) is considered the gateway to the soul.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
“From a metaphorical standpoint,” writes the revered critic Hanif Abdurraqib early in his blockbuster 2017 essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, “one of the worst things we do is compare love to war. We do this in times of actual war without a thought about what it actually means. Mothers bury their children while a pop musician
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