Marie Romeijn
@marieromeijn
Marie Romeijn
but learning demands a temporary surrender of pride. you can’t learn while protecting your image at the same time. you have to allow yourself to sound clumsy, to look unpolished, to admit you’re not there yet. it feels like loss in the moment — loss of dignity, loss of certainty — but it’s really the ground clearing itself so that something else... See more
how to live with the discomfort of learning (instead of running from it)
how to live with the discomfort of learning (instead of running from it)
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Fearlessness is what love seeks. Love as craving is determined by its goal, and this goal is freedom from fear.
Hanna Arendt- Love and Saint Augustine
It was this living example that became Maria Mitchell’s great poem, composed in the language of being — as any life of passion and purpose ultimately becomes.
Maria Mitchell- the Marginalian
understanding what it is like to be another. Without it, there can be no love, for we cannot love whom we do not understand — then we are pseudo-loving a projection. A sign of healthy love, therefore, is the ability to be reliable and responsible with — which is different from being responsible for — the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of
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