Kate Smalley

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Kate Smalley

@katesmalley

Small Business Advisor & Educator.

Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.

Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.

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“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”

— Anne Lamott

When you’re concentrated on reward and punishment you never get to healing.

Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2

Language is like the earth. It has a huge vitality.

John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty

Communication, Language, Form

"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"

— Mary Oliver

I think what I enjoy most about listening is that I disappear.

Emergence Magazine • ‎Emergence Magazine - Sanctuaries of Silence

David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough

David Whyte onbeing.org

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"It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain."

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

“The key seems to be to find a restful yet attention presence in the midst of our work, to open up a spaciousness even in the center of our responsibility.”

— David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea

Daniel Schmachtenberger - How can we live a meaningful life?

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.”